About this episode
Author Jabari Asim is out with a new novel called Yonder . The story follows a group of enslaved men and women who are forced to work on a plantation by day but dream together about freedom – and what's beyond the world they know – at night. Asim told NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer that he always writes with his ancestors looking over his shoulder: "I feel like I have a responsibility to honor that legacy of labor and sacrifice by doing the best I can and to take what it is that I do very seriously." Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy