'The Door of No Return' is a story for children about slavery
'The Door of No Return' is a story for children about slavery  
Podcast: NPR's Book of the Day
Published On: Tue Oct 04 2022
Description: Kwame Alexander's new novel aimed at teens, The Door of No Return, focuses on the history of slavery. It follows a boy growing up in Ghana in 1860, and it aims to help readers understand the wholeness of the lives and experiences of Africans before they walked through that "door of no return" – and were shipped to the Americas. In an interview with NPR's Rachel Martin, Alexander talks about how he used poetry to make the heavy subject palatable for children.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy