![]() ![]() “I was in a gift shop there and the African gods and goddesses were depicted in such a beautiful and sacred way … it really made me think about all the beautiful images we never see featuring black people.” ![]() It was in South America that the seeds of Children of Blood and Bone, the first in a trilogy, were sown. She studied English literature at Harvard before heading to Brazil on a fellowship to study west African culture and mythology. Her father is a doctor, while her mother runs a group of hospices outside Chicago. To say you are seen.”Īdeyemi is the middle child of three – her brother is a musician and her younger sister still at college. Children of Blood and Bone is a chance to address that. “I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. ![]() “For the past 10 months I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, is this for real?” she says. ![]()
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