Review by bookreviewswithkb - Aftershocks

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Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

5.0

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5/5 ✨✨✨✨✨ TOP TIER

it’s a memoir but really so much more than that. a personal memoir. a memoir of how trauma lives in the body and is passed through generations. a memoir of home, and what not having a traditional home might mean. a memoir of colonialism. a memoir of anti-blackness. a memoir of motherhood. of loss. of parental death. of abandonment. of deceit. of family. of depression. of natural disaster; earthquakes.

“history is many stories. those stories are written, spoken and sung. they are carried in our bodies. they billow all around us like copper-colored dust that sometimes obscures everything. in these stories, we grasp at meaning. we search for ourselves, for our place, for direction. we search for a way forward: an invitation home, a meteor, a lake, a child landing with a splat. destruction and creation. changes in light, terrain, and atmosphere. delicate new freedom. hope.”

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