“The night Effie Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father’s compound.”— Yaa Gyasi, amazon.com
“She was her father’s daughter but she’d inherited her mother’s black anger. It burned through her sometimes like a chemical fire, brief and devastating and utterly unstoppable.”— Amber Sparks, rabbitinthemoon.tumblr.com