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"Loving Safoa is a healing Black Sapphic love story that will leave you craving so much more than blood. Tender, harsh, sensual, cerebral and delightful, a debut made for your veins. She was raised in New York and Atlanta, Georgia, and currently resides in Southern California. Liza Wemakor is a writer and scholar of speculative fiction and Black American literature. A vampire story that twists and turns from New York to West Africa and back. Cynthia's affair with Safoa weaves together stories from nineteenth century Ghana, late twentieth century New York and a near future reality in Maryland that defies the utopian/dystopian binary. Wemakor's captivating worldbuilding and thematic acuity are proof that the timelessness of vampires is well-deserved. Loving Safoa celebrates love between Black women and their chosen communities, which transcends all attempts at oppression, threats of despair, and even the vicissitudes of time. " - Akotowaa Ofori"Loving Safoa is a book that lingers, with characters that are easy to love and hard to forget.