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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
This was a lively wee... Memoir-ish thingy. Owusu is one of those pretty international folk - grew up in multiple cities at the intersection of a few identities. So she spent time in Addis Ababa, London, New York, Accra, Rome (etc). The biracial kid of a black Ghanain and a white Armenian, with a pretty dizzying range of influences, languages around.
So on the one hand she's reflecting on a state of privilege - UN worker's daughter who gets to live in the nice parts of town. On the other there's a lot of reflection on mixed identity - too light skinned for Ghana, doesn't speak Twi with her family, a bit posh for black London, a bit black for Rome. I say memoir ish because it's as much an ode to her dad as it is her own life story. And also it doesn't move in chronological order, which makes sense.
I love me a good autobiography type thing and this was a lush read. It's a nice amd clear thing and one of the more careful and empathetic recognitions of the various intersections of relstive financial or cultural privilege against gender, race, colourism etc. Recommend.
So on the one hand she's reflecting on a state of privilege - UN worker's daughter who gets to live in the nice parts of town. On the other there's a lot of reflection on mixed identity - too light skinned for Ghana, doesn't speak Twi with her family, a bit posh for black London, a bit black for Rome. I say memoir ish because it's as much an ode to her dad as it is her own life story. And also it doesn't move in chronological order, which makes sense.
I love me a good autobiography type thing and this was a lush read. It's a nice amd clear thing and one of the more careful and empathetic recognitions of the various intersections of relstive financial or cultural privilege against gender, race, colourism etc. Recommend.