![]() Nobody remembered nobody, you understand?’ He say that four more times before I catch what he mean. This is the tenth time I am talking to you, and the fourth city too. Sogolon is found later by her great-great-granddaughter and a water sprite who explains what happened to her via long-forgotten griot: “‘Here is truth. ![]() Both temporal irruption and narratological uncertainty are present within Sogolon’s story: after her showdown with the Aesi, when she kills him but loses a child in the process, a gap in her memory becomes apparent during this interval, she leaves her family and spends roughly 170 years with a community of apes, where she develops notoriety as an ageless witch. Moon Witch, Spider King is an origin story, one that takes us through Sogolon’s trials and tribulations as she struggles her way from her abusive family to a brothel, to work in the court of royals before falling onto the wrong side of a dynastic dispute, developing a conflict with the king’s chancellor, the Aesi. Crucially, Sogolon - the Moon Witch - our focus and protagonist for this second installment in the Dark Star trilogy, provides (at times) a steadier, more linear narration. MARLON JAMES’S Moon Witch, Spider King is a worthy sequel to 2019’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf, redolent of similar themes, from the lascivious, irruptive narrative to smatterings of torqued violence and deterritorialized spatiality. ![]()
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