Due next month, [Mosley's] young adult novel "47" — part magic realism, part science fiction, part folk tale — is the story of a young slave boy's struggle toward freedom."Descendants of the victims of slavery find it hard to look straight into that image because it is so painful," Mosley says. "I wanted to write something … to help people understand the nature of freedom…. The only way to be free is to free yourself."
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