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In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. “In Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu tells the incredible story of her young life. How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE AND TIME MAGAZINE!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 arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together. “A magnificent, complex assessment of selfhood and why it matters” (Elle), Aftershocks depicts the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand. “Full of narrative risk and untrammeled lyricism” (The Washington Post), Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.

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This is no ordinary memoir. It is a shattering look at a young woman’s life, once broken, several times over, and while with each crack, she uncovers something about her past, how to hold herself together in the present, always searching for meaning. About who she is, where she belongs. This is Nadia Owusu’s memoir AFTERSHOCKS.Nadia was raised everywhere. Literally. The daughter of a UN official, whose job took him from Ghana to Ethiopia to Uganda to Italy and beyond, she never identified with one place or settled in for long. Not always fitting in with extended family either. Her Armenian American mother left the family when Nadia was a toddler, and it was her Ghanaian father to whom she was so close. He succumbed to cancer when Nadia was just 13. She and her sister and baby half brother remained with their stepmother. Abandoned by their birth mother, once more.Again, in a country not of her birthland, without a parent of her own, Nadia never felt more alone. Life had taken its toll. By the time she entered college in the States, depression took over. Later, a breakdown. Thus, aftershocks.What transpires in AFTERSHOCKS is not only a map of her life, how she got from one country to another, caring for herself, her siblings and honoring the memory of her father, but a remarkable history lesson about the world around her.Challenging. Yes. Heartbreaking. To the core. Here is a woman who faces her own situation, head on, trying to make sense of her history, both the people who created her and the places she lived, and without laying blame, grappling with the ‘who’ she is now. Even when you are reading something so devastating, Nadia’s poetic style brings you to a level of understanding that only a very gifted, introspective mind can do. She asks questions for answers she is seeking. Her continual quest for meaning is evident not only in her immediate surroundings but through her love of literature, poetry, history, understanding the mind, and the spiritual world.A nugget in the book that grabbed me, among many, is the Ashanti naming ceremony when parents touch their baby’s lips and mouth with sweet wine and whiskey and then libations are poured to the earth, paying homage to their ancestors and asking for their blessings.

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