Overview
Region
West Africa
Ghana
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
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.
Literary Significance
One of the most celebrated recent novels about the African diaspora; Selasi coined the term 'Afropolitans'