Review on pages for mac5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Asali Solomon’s second novel, The Days of Afrekete, tackles all three with insight, wit and grace-a tribute to her considerable talent.Īt the core of the novel, whose title refers to a character in Audre Lorde’s Zami, is the story of Liselle Belmont and Selena Octave, two Black women who meet at Bryn Mawr College in the 1990s and enter into a brief, intense relationship each ascribes the fault for its end to the other. Taking on questions of race, sexual identity or class in a work of barely 200 pages would be an ambitious project for any writer. ![]()
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