The distance ends up giving her a heavy dose of perspective, which becomes more important as the movie forces lingering ugliness from the past out into the open.Ī Chorus Rises is not as suspenseful as A Song Below Water it’s not a book with a mystery to solve or magical revelations to be uncovered. Frustrated with her friends and family, and confident that no one appreciates the depth of her suffering, Naema decides to leave Portland OR and visit her extended family in Arizona. As the Earth-shattering events of the first book continue to dominate national conversations, especially with a new TV movie dramatizing it, she feels trapped in the past. She is accustomed to presenting a polished exterior, more concerned about maintaining a perfect social media presence than anything else. She is internet famous due to her negative actions that day, but Naema was also hurt, and no one, not even those closest to her, understands how much. The reader is dropped immediately into Naema’s dramatically transformed life one year after the final events of A Song Below Water. The fallout from her very public crash in popularity at the end of the first book, and the sinister impact it might have on other Black girls, is the plot point from which Morrow has crafted this brilliant sequel.įirst things first: you have to read these two books in order to not only appreciate A Chorus Rises, but to understand much of the plot. She sailed through life on the fawning attention of everyone she met and never expected to have a single moment of worry. She was not a character who engendered much sympathy because she didn’t need any Naema was a smart, beautiful Eloko teen who was “gifted with a song” that made her charming to others. Naema Bradshaw was a privileged mean girl and secondary character in A Song Below Water, who used her social status to bully the title’s protagonists. Following closely on the heels of the earlier book’s shattering finale, A Chorus Rises picks up the story from a surprising point of view. Morrow continues to give her penetrating attention to the hazards young Black women face when they possess a significant amount of magic and power.
In A Chorus Rises, sequel to A Song Below Water, Bethany C.
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