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AFTERSHOCKS - NADIA OWUSU GEBUNDEN

'One of the most moving books of the new year' STYLIST'Gorgeous and unsettling' NEW YORK
TIMES'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' PANDORA SYKES'One of the literary
world's most promising new voices' REDI have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me.
Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.When Nadia Owusu was two years old her
mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania back to the US. When she was
thirteen her beloved Ghanaian father died of cancer. She and her sister were left alone  with a
stepmother they didn't like  adrift. Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages  homelands and
identities. She grew up in Rome  Dar-es-Salaam  Addis Ababa  Kumasi  Kampala and London. And
for every new place there was a new language  a new identity and a new home. At times she has
felt stateless  motherless and identity-less. At others  she has had multiple identities at war
within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder
that those fault lines eventually ruptured. Aftershocks is the account of how she hauled
herself out of the wreckage. It is the intimate story behind the news of immigration and
division dominating contemporary politics. Nadia Owusu's astonishingly moving and incredibly
timely memoir is a nuanced portrait of globalisation from the inside in a fractured world in
crisis.

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