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When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen she still felt as if she had so many competing personas that she couldn’t keep track of them all without cracking under the pressure of trying to hold herself together. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. AFTERSHOCKS is a deeply intimate memoir of Nadia Owusu, a biracial woman born in Tanzania who had an unsettled childhood this novel is about the search for. Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world-from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala.
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Using earthquakes and aftershocks as metaphor, Nadia takes us through her well-traveled life and knits the pieces of her disparate experiences together to a whole, to home. This poetic, genre-bending work-blending memoir with cultural history-from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma. Description 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. Educational, moving and compelling, Nadia Owusu’s memoir is a GREAT way to begin the new year.