This is a beautifully written book, but slow to read due to the rhythmic language and use of meter. Some sections were so lyrical I found that I wasn't absorbing the words and had to go back and re-read them to register what was being said and this made it slow-going. There were certainly time...
Love between Kweku Sai and Folasade, ambition and pride, 4 children...and suddenly, abandonment. When Kweku walks away from his family and returns to Ghana, only his death brings them back together again. They all bear secret shames and guilt, but together in Ghana they become a family again. Be...
Olu walks in no particular hurry out of the hospital, puts down his coffee, puts down his phone and starts to cry. Five quick sobs, drumbeats—your-fa-ther-is-dead—then he wipes his face, closes his eyes. Snowflakes fall, land on his nose and his lips. It is one A.M., zero degrees Celsius. &...