Her only source of solace is Binta, a young divîner serving girl who is Amari’s only friend. Amari feels confined and stifled by her life. Meanwhile, Princess Amari sits in Orïsha’s palace enduring her mother’s usual harsh criticisms. Zélie and her brother travel to the capital city of Lagos, hoping to make a trade that will help them cover the new taxes. Levying ever-higher taxes on divîners is just one way that Saran keeps them under his thumb and unable to fight back. They came demanding payment from households containing divîners. There, they find their father, Baba, badly shaken after an encounter with the guards. Zélie’s older brother, Tzain, bursts into the practice space to tell Zélie they need to go home immediately. Zélie practices fighting so that she can protect her family and herself from the brutal royal guards who are ostensibly there to protect them, but really, with their crude ways and snow leopanaire-emblazoned armor, are just a threat. Now, divîners are feared and reviled, treated by the nobility as second-class citizens. On that day, the group lost their connection to the gods, and with it, their ability to do magic-and Zélie lost her mother, a deeply painful memory that still haunts her.

In Orïsha, the fictional, West Africa-inspired country where this story takes place, divîners are still suffering from a horrific event that happened more than a decade ago, when the monarchy, helmed by King Saran, carried out the systematic murder of all divîners over the age of thirteen. Unlike her classmate, Zélie is a divîner, meaning she has luminous white hair and, in theory, the ability to do magic. (BYR).Zélie Adebola, a headstrong teenage girl, practices sparring with a classmate.

After graduating Harvard University with an honors degree in English literature, she studied West African mythology and culture in Salvador, Brazil.

Tomi Adeyemi is a Nigerian-American writer and creative writing coach based in San Diego, California.

Inspired by West African mythology, Children of Blood and Bone, the first in a trilogy, is an epic adventure tale centered on teenager Zélie Adebola’s quest to restore the magic to her kingdom.

Adeyemi, whose Children of Blood and Bone is the first volume of a projected trilogy, is a year-old newcomer to the thriving market of young-adult literature, where demands for greater Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

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