![]() ![]() ![]() This novel is very much like looking through a family album that captures feelings alongside the moments in time. Like Kweku and Folasade, her parents both escaped conflict in Africa and, like Kweku, her father is a surgeon and, like her family, they're 'Afropolitans', a word that Taiye coined in an essay about the migration of intellectual Africans. On hearing of his death, his children and first wife Folasade look back on what they were before and, thanks in part to Folasade's and Kweku's actions, what they've become.Ī British-born writer and photographer of Nigerian/Ghanaian descent, Taiye Selasi has written about something close to home in this, her debut novel which also made the prestigious Waterstones 11 list for 2013. As he gazes back at his house, he suffers a fatal heart attack and, during his last moments reflects on his life and a family fragmented. ![]() Kweku Sai, father, husband and doctor, awakes early one morning and wanders outside into his Ghanaian garden. A poignant read that's enriched by an understanding of humanity and suffering and, indeed, endorsed by Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. ![]() Summary: Emotional turbulence as a fragmented family search for an anchor and a way to make sense of their lives. ![]()
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