A "buoyant” and "rapturous” debut novel (The Wall Street Journal) about the transformative
power of unconditional love Electric exhilarating and beautifully crafted Ghana Must Go
introduces the world to Taiye Selasi a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping
narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York it is at once a
portrait of a modern family and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who
we are. A renowned surgeon and failed husband Kweku Sai dies suddenly at dawn outside his
home in suburban Accra. The news of his death sends a ripple around the world bringing
together the family he abandoned years before. Moving with great elegance through time and
place Ghana Must Go charts their circuitous journey to one another and along the way teaches
us that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.
