400 Years Since 1619: 'I Wanted to Be a World Builder': The Root Presents: It's Lit! Gets Into The Gilded Ones With Namina Forna

What does it take to build a world? For Namina Forma, it took drawing on both her experiences growing up in Sierra Leone and America to help create the world of her first YA fantasy novel, The Gilded Ones (Penguin Random House).