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Aftershocks : a memoir / Nadia Owusu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owusu, Nadia, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Owusu, Nadia, 1981-.
- Owusu, Nadia.
- Multiracial women--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial women.
- Multiracial women--Race identity--United States.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- United States.
- Multiracial people--Race identity--United States.
- Multiracial people--Race identity.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 299 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen she still felt as if she had so many competing personas that she couldn't keep track of them all without cracking under the pressure of trying to hold herself together. A powerful coming-of-age story that explores timely and universal themes of identity, Aftershocks follows Nadia's life as she hauls herself out of the wreckage and begins to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one she writes into existence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Foreshocks
- Unwelcome Reunion
- Aches
- The Blue Chair
- Day Zero
- Topography
- Navel
- Photograph
- Colonial Mentality
- Blood Trauma
- Day One
- Day Two
- Faults
- The Heat of Dar es Salaam
- The Other Side of the Wall
- African Girls
- Mainshocks
- Minor Aggressions
- Sentinel
- The Wailing
- Homesick
- Failures of Language
- Fault Zone Voice
- Queen
- Day Three
- Day Four
- Aftershocks
- Orphan
- Panic
- Baby Fever
- Devices
- An American Terror
- A Heavy Burden
- Day Five
- Day Six
- Day Seven
- Terraforming
- God Is Dead, Long Live God
- Maternal Guidance
- The Liminal
- Libation
- Home.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Owusu, Nadia, 1981- Aftershocks.
- ISBN:
- 9781982111229
- 1982111224
- OCLC:
- 1124336435
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