“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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