With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:01:43 Boxid IA1882308 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ‘Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family’s fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. It is a debut novel of blazing originality and startling power by a writer of extraordinary gifts. Ghana Must Go interweaves the stories of the Sais in a rich and moving drama of separation and reunion, spanning generations and cultures from West Africa to New England, London, New York and back again. A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love. This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief.

Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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