Aftershocks: A Memoir Owusu Nadia
Aftershocks: A Memoir Owusu Nadia In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this "gorgeous" (The New York Times, Editors' Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the…
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Aftershocks: A Memoir Owusu Nadia
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this "gorgeous" (The New York Times, Editors' Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the "incredible story" (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through.Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. The instability wrought by Nadia's nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes.
Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again.