Instead, her high-profile debut calls attention to an underheralded tradition. The Nigerian American writer isn’t a pioneer, though. Adeyemi, whose Children of Blood and Bone is the first volume of a projected trilogy, is a 24-year-old newcomer to the thriving market of young-adult literature, where demands for greater diversity of authorship and subject matter have lately been loud and clear. The seven-figure book advance and movie deal bestowed a year ago on Tomi Adeyemi suggest the opposite: a convergence of themes likely to appeal to a very wide audience. I f a “Black Lives Matter–inspired fantasy novel” sounds like an ungainly hybrid-a pitch gone wrong-think again.
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