West Africa
Ghana
Contemporary
English
Fiction
The Sai family — Ghanaian father, Nigerian mother, four children scattered across continents — reassembles when the patriarch dies. A lyrical examination of the African immigrant family's fracture and possible healing.
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One of the most celebrated recent novels about the African diaspora; Selasi coined the term 'Afropolitans'
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editorial-summarynot primary textThe Sai family — Ghanaian father, Nigerian mother, four children scattered across continents — reassembles when the patriarch dies. A lyrical examination of the African immigrant family's fracture and possible healing. One of the most celebrated recent novels about the African diaspora; Selasi coined the term 'Afropolitans'
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