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Zalika Reid-Benta on becoming the "weird writer" she's always wanted to be

Sep 20, 2023

Nathan spoke with novelist Zalika Reid-Benta, 2020 winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for her debut book Frying Plantain, and author of the new novel River Mumma. It’s the story of a young woman named Alicia, who we meet at a time in her life when things are no longer going as well as they used to. Then Alicia meets a water deity named River Mumma who tasks her with recovering a precious object—and she’s got just 24 hours to do it.

Zalika Reid-Benta on becoming the "weird writer" she's always wanted to be