{"id":60498,"date":"2021-01-30T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60498"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:25:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:25:27","slug":"aftershocks-dispatches-from-the-frontlines-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60498","title":{"rendered":"Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Sceptre<\/a> (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton<\/a>)
\n2021-02-04
\n320 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781529342864
\neBook ISBN: 9781529342888<\/p>\n

Nadia Owusu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania<\/a> back to the US<\/a>. When she was thirteen her beloved Ghanaian father died of cancer. She and her sister were left alone, with a stepmother they didn\u2019t like, adrift.<\/p>\n

Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome<\/a>, Dar-es-Salaam<\/a>, Addis Ababa<\/a>, Kumasi<\/a>, Kampala<\/a> and London<\/a>. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It\u2019s no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It\u2019s no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured.<\/p>\n

Aftershocks is the account of how she hauled herself out of the wreckage. It is the intimate story behind the news of immigration and division dominating contemporary politics. Nadia Owusu\u2019s astonishingly moving and incredibly timely memoir is a nuanced portrait of globalisation<\/a> from the inside in a fractured world in crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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