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Habila: A Novel

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Inspired by an African legend, Habila is a spellbinding story of identity, womanhood and self-discovery told through the eyes of a young immigrant. When Melanctha and her family move from Liberia to Texas, she discovers a secret power tied to a long-buried family mystery that could change everything.

From the acclaimed author of She Would Be King, a dazzling and daring work of magical realism that weaves through the lives of a Liberian immigrant family and the water goddess who haunts them

In this ambitious new novel, the bestselling and prize-winning writer Wayétu Moore delivers us into the lives of a young girl, Melanctha, and her family amid the loss of their patriarch, Tokpa. They relocate from Liberia to the backwater town of Hunt, Texas, a land that proves hostile to them—until one...