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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
3.75
Daughter of a proud Ghanaian father and an Armenian mother who abandoned her, living as expats of…what country exactly? Her unmoored identity is even more pronounced than a typical immigrant. Her Biracial, multi-cultural, multi-lingual background makes her story unequivocally unique, and yet, there was much that resonated within my own mind and heart’s chambers.
The book uses an overarching metaphor, which I am not exactly sure I appreciate fully. Nonetheless, it is a searingly honest portrait of broken lives in all of its imperfections. Parts of the book read like poetry, spoken word, especially as the author reads the audiobook.
I loved her short snippets of history of Ghana, Ashanti tribe of her father’s ancestry. There was many parallels of familial culture found in East Asian countries with Confucian influence.
Daughter of a proud Ghanaian father and an Armenian mother who abandoned her, living as expats of…what country exactly? Her unmoored identity is even more pronounced than a typical immigrant. Her Biracial, multi-cultural, multi-lingual background makes her story unequivocally unique, and yet, there was much that resonated within my own mind and heart’s chambers.
The book uses an overarching metaphor, which I am not exactly sure I appreciate fully. Nonetheless, it is a searingly honest portrait of broken lives in all of its imperfections. Parts of the book read like poetry, spoken word, especially as the author reads the audiobook.
I loved her short snippets of history of Ghana, Ashanti tribe of her father’s ancestry. There was many parallels of familial culture found in East Asian countries with Confucian influence.