Nadia Owusu
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
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Nadia Owusu's memoir, "Aftershocks," is a powerful and timely exploration of globalisation from the perspective of a person who has experienced multiple identities and languages. It is a nuanced portrait of a fractured world in crisis.
Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 04 February 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
One of the most captivating books of the year, STYLIST has captivated readers with its stunning and unsettling narrative. The NEW YORK TIMES has hailed it as "brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating," while PANDORA SYKES has praised it as one of the literary world's most promising new voices. RED has described it as "I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation."
When Nadia Owusu was just two years old, her mother abandoned her and her baby sister, and they fled from Tanzania back to the United States. Tragically, when she was thirteen, her beloved Ghanaian father succumbed to cancer, leaving her and her sister alone with a stepmother they didn't particularly like. They were adrift.
Nadia Owusu is a woman of diverse languages, homelands, and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala, and London. With each new place, she encountered a new language, a new identity, and a new home. At times, she felt like a stateless, motherless, and identity-less individual. At other times, she grappled with multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder that she began to experience fractures in her sense of self, and those fault lines eventually ruptured.
Aftershocks is the story of how she managed to pull herself out of the wreckage. It delves into the intimate details behind the headlines of immigration and division that dominate contemporary politics. Nadia Owusu's astonishingly moving and incredibly timely memoir offers a nuanced portrayal of globalization from the perspective of a fractured world in crisis.
Weight: 430g
Dimension: 145 x 223 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529342864
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