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Aftershocks [eBook - NC Digital Library] : A Memoir by Nadia Owusu; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the tradition of The Glass Castle , a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award?winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. A Most-Anticipated Selection by * The New York Times * Entertainment Weekly * O, The Oprah Magazine * New York magazine * Vogue * Time * Elle * Minneapolis Star Tribune * Electric Literature * Goodreads * The Millions *Refinery29 * HelloGiggles * Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia's nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia's stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrive

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Author

Nadia Owusu; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781982111243

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography