Author Craig Kofi Farmer depicts a wild and amazing world in his action-packed first novel, Kwame Crashes the Underworld. Farmer, who has been writing since he was 12, tells the story of 12-year-old Kwame Powell. Kwame’s grandmother has just died, and he feels unready for the future. He’s even more unsettled when he and his friend Autumn are suddenly teleported to Asamando, the Ghanaian underworld. There, they encounter hostile gods, ancestor spirits, and more. Farmer’s favorite character in the book is Autumn. “She is extremely strong-willed, and she’s the kind of best friend I wish I had, growing up,” he says. “It was very fulfilling and restorative for me to write this best-friend figure. She is of my heart.”
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