The
Day of Reckoning: No More Mr Taylor
is John Gay’s fourth novel, completing the family saga told in
the novels Red
Dust on the Green Leaves,
The
Brightening Shadow
and Long
Day’s Anger.
This final novel brings the family back from civil war-imposed exile
in Ivory Coast. They remake their lives as the bloody conflict
concludes, leading to Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf becoming the first woman
President of an African nation. The four novels together give a
much-needed synthesis and summary of social and economic change in a
rural African society.
“The
brutality, savagery and atrocities of the Liberian civil war were on
such a grand scale that not one inch of the country or its people was
left unaffected. The characters in the story finally reached a point
where they realized and we today must realize there is no victor or
vanquished. Instead all must sit around the “palaver hut”
and address the issues that have vexed Liberians in the past and that
still vex us today.” Richelieu
Lomax, World Bank.
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