![]() Even at a distance of some 20 years, it’s clear that neither woman has been able to shed the memory of their four months as lovers, scenes of which Solomon sketches in vivid, economical flashbacks.Īs their college years recede, Liselle’s and Selena’s lives proceed in opposite directions. ![]() 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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