Sogolon's time in the Komwono household is spent sleeping in the slave quarters, being ignored by Master Komwono (who recognized her from the pleasure house), and learning proper behavior from Mistress Komwono. Mistress Komwono recognizes the craftiness and grit in Sogolon and extends an offer for Sogolon to be her ward, which Sogolon accepts. Sogolon unknowingly steals a talisman from one of the johns linked to an Ukundunka, a monster that protects the owner, and the owner's wife, the willful Mistress Komwono, comes to collect it, killing most of the prostitutes and Miss Azora. Sogolon survives by drugging the men that come to have sex with her and stealing from them, plotting to leave the pleasure house. Sogolon escapes and flees to the city of Kongor in the Northern Kingdom, where she is taken in by Miss Azora, the owner of a "house of pleasurable goods and services." Miss Azora gives Sogolon shelter and eventually forces her into prostitution.
The plot follows Sogolon, who starts as a nameless young girl enslaved and abused by her brothers.
The novel is told in a more straightforward linear style than Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Jordan in February 2019 before the release of the first book. The rights to produce a film adaptation were purchased by Michael B. The novel draws on African history and mythology, blended into the landscape of the North Kingdom and the South Kingdom, and the political tensions between these two warring states, as well as various city-states and tribes in the surrounding landscape. The novel tells a story parallel to, and intersecting with, the first novel. It is the second book of a planned trilogy, after Black Leopard, Red Wolf. (Feb.Moon Witch, Spider King is a 2022 fantasy novel by Jamaican writer Marlon James. The two stories run parallel to and contradict each other, and James mines the distance between them to raise powerful questions about whether truth is possible when the power of storytelling is available only to a few. If book one centers on the nature of storytelling, this volume turns its focus to memory, archiving, and history as Sogolon works to correct the record. Now each works against the other as they try to find the lost boy for their own purposes.
Sogolon becomes a living record of all the kingdom has been through-and to the Aesi, this makes her a threat. She witnesses mad kings rise and fall and women suffer at their hands, all while the Aesi, or the king’s chancellor, remains a constant at the right side of the throne. Furtive Sogolon, the Moon Witch, manages to live far longer than most expect for a girl of “little use” with no family ties. Sogolon, the antagonist of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, tells her side of the story in Booker Prize winner James’s brilliant second Dark Star fantasy, which chronicles Sogolon’s life from childhood through to the search for the lost boy at the center of the first book.
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