{"id":47504,"date":"2020-11-18T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T16:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47504"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:27:29","slug":"the-dragons-the-giant-the-women-by-wayetu-moore-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-dragons-the-giant-the-women-by-wayetu-moore-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Way\u00e9tu Moore [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47075\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Dragons-the-Giant-the-Women-Wayetu-Moore-BookDragon-534x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Dragons-the-Giant-the-Women-Wayetu-Moore-BookDragon-534x800.jpg 534w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/06\/Dragons-the-Giant-the-Women-Wayetu-Moore-BookDragon.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/>Way\u00e9tu Moore is the first to speak, although only briefly, to share her initial excitement over the possibility of narrating her elegant memoir. That opportunity, alas, became another \u201ccasualty of COVID-19,\u201d preventing her from safe studio time, but she adds a personal thanks to narrator Tovah Ott. Interestingly, Ott might seem like an audiobook newbie with limited credits, but she\u2019s commanded hundreds of titles over the last five years under alternate names.<\/p>\n<p>Ott\u2019s extensive experience certainly explains her agile character transitions, as she ciphers Moore\u2019s affecting memories as a 5-year-old war survivor in her native Liberia with her father and sisters; the miraculous reunion with her beloved Mam, who was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia when the war forced the family to flee; the cultural adjustments as an immigrant in Texas; and her adulthood in Brooklyn, when she begins to examine and confront her past. From disoriented young children to harried adults, rebel fighters to refugees, and an anxious mother and searching daughter, Ott shifts readily, creating diverse personas.<\/p>\n<p>Minor production glitches \u2013 a repeated sentence, obvious insertions \u2013 are noticeable, but Ott\u2019s performance overall proves deserving of Moore\u2019s gratitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Dragons-the-Giant-the-Women-\/pid=9736809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, November 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way\u00e9tu Moore is the first to speak, although only briefly, to share her initial excitement over the possibility of narrating her elegant memoir. 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