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A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, ghana must g. Ghana must go was a tough read because 1 the authors style is poetic and not always forwardmoving, 2 the character focus shifts without warning and it takes time to determine who youre reading about. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, ghana must go follows the sais journey, moving with great elegance through time and place to share the truths hidden and lies told. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The novel follows the sai family as they come to terms with their father kweku sais.
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The death of kweku sai, a noted surgeon, in the garden of his home in accra. Family sagas generally start with a joyous birthor, as in the case of taiye selasis debut novel, an unexpected death. The bonds of love, loss and misunderstanding connecting an african family are exhaustively dissected in a convoluted first novel. Taiye selasis debut novel, ghana must go, centers on the sai family, a fractured clan of overachieving jetsetters who, like selasi, are immigrants of ghanaian and nigerian descent. Waterstones has published a list they call the eleven, which consists of their favourite debuts of 20. Selasis ambitionto show her readers not africa but one african family, authors of their own. A buoyant and rapturous debut novel the wall street journal about the transformative power of unconditional loveelectric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, ghana must go introduces the world to. It was published in 20, and nominated for an naacp image award.
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