{"id":7023,"date":"2010-05-06T22:31:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2019-07-14T02:49:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:49:44","slug":"red-dust-road-an-autobiographical-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7023","title":{"rendered":"Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Picador<\/a> an Imprint of PanMacmillan
\n2010-06-04
\n304 pages
\n214mm x 135mm, 0.43 kg
\nISBN: 9780330451055<\/p>\n

Jackie Kay<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Creative Writing
\nNewcastle University<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn\u2019t make it up.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland<\/a> mother and Nigerian<\/a> father, the journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road <\/em>is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.<\/p>\n

In a book shining with warmth, humour and compassion, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that our internal landscapes are as important as those through which we move.<\/p>\n

Taking the reader from Glasgow<\/a> to Lagos<\/a> and beyond, Red Dust Road<\/em> is revelatory, redemptive and courageous, unique in its voice and universal in its reach. It is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny, and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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