The Liberian-American author and social entrepreneur opened her own bookshop, One Moore Bookstore, Liberia’s first dedicated to reading for pleasure. “It was in reading that I was able to make sense of my new country,” Moore says of her early days in the US. Growing up with her father’s stories of the “profound experiment” of Liberia, Moore knew she wanted to unpack it through literature. Moore has felt the same: “The ability to see oneself immortalised in storytelling has had a powerful impact on me. Truth is the most humanist commitment we can make.”• She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore is published by Pushkin Press.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 13:41 UTC