The novel takes the reader between Persephone’s present day and her experiences as a young girl, spending her summers at her family cottage. “From my bed, it has a massage feature!” Every Summer After by Carley FortuneĮvery Summer After follows Persephone Fraser over the course of six summers and one weekend. The Show Girl, external link, Nicola Harrison The Lunar Housewife, external link, Caroline Woods The Perfect Ruin, external link, Shanora Williams “If I want to see a story with a Black person at the centre, I have to write it myself.”Īfia is working on a third novel for the series. That was something that was very important to me,” she said. “I never got to see myself as a central character in books when I was a kid. The book covers themes of true crime, history, culture, mystery and importantly for Afia, representation. “This second book focuses on Louise and sees her grow,” said Afia. The series follows main character Louise Lloyd, a young Black queer woman in 1920s New York City who becomes a detective, solving the murders of other young Black women. In fact, it was a history course at the university that inspired the themes of Afia’s first novel Dead Dead Girls and its follow up, Harlem Sunset: A Harlem Renaissance Mystery, released in June.īoth books are part of a series, external link set in the prohibition era. Nekesa Afia has been writing since she was a child and professionally since she graduated from TMU in 2017.
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