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Ghana Must Go - Taiye Selasi
Ghana Must Go
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Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating,... show more
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent.   Moving with great elegance through time and place, Ghana Must Go charts the Sais’ circuitous journey to one another. In the wake of Kweku’s death, his children gather in Ghana at their enigmatic mother’s new home. The eldest son and his wife; the mysterious, beautiful twins; the baby sister, now a young woman: each carries secrets of his own. What is revealed in their coming together is the story of how they came apart: the hearts broken, the lies told, the crimes committed in the name of love. Splintered, alone, each navigates his pain, believing that what has been lost can never be recovered—until, in Ghana, a new way forward, a new family, begins to emerge. Ghana Must Go is at once a portrait of a modern family, and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, Ghana Must Go teaches that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781594204494 (1594204497)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it
4.0 Ghana Must Go
Really well written, good read, well done. Excellent description of the evolution of a family, from America to Ghana.Part of me wants to rebel against this novel, though. Really. Event occurs that causes a far-flung, estranged family to get together, reveal deep, dark secrets, say the things they...
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Wow. Sign me up to read anything and everything by Taiye Selasi.I don't often have the best of luck with my random library grabs (of all the books I've impulsively selected from the library based on titles/blurb jackets only one other one this year has gotten over 3 stars). This was a welcome surpri...
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Rowena's Reviews rated it
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“Then Ghana, and the smell of Ghana, a contradiction, a cracked clay pot: the smell of dryness, wetness, both, the damp earth and dry of dust. The airport. Bodies pushing, pulling, shouting, begging, touching, breathing. He’d forgotten the bodies. The proximity of bodies. In America the bodies were ...
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