The book takes you to the past and to the present. The Sais, very convincing family, with telling problems of divided culture. This has to be one of the deepest things I’ve read in my life. After love dies man believes in his death. Death must take place on the heart to be believed in. The loss of a pet or a rose or a parent may cause the man pain but will not make the point. In this way, the man learns that death is reality: that death can exist in his being, his own. A man knows well that he must die, but having only known life does not believe in his death. The only point of a relationship is to play out, in miniature, the whole blasted drama of life and of death.

Such that one cannot lose, nor ever say he has lost, what he does not permit to exist in his mind. Not to give a shit about rain on your blowout… Forget the secret benefit from affirmative action this is the white woman’s privilege. A Black Power solution to a Bluest Eye problem : the desire to have long, swinging, ponytail hair…you still need a hairstyle for running in rain. What kind of black girl grows lock? Black girls who go to predominantly white colleges, that’s who. But these are my favorite quotes and lines from the book though : This book is something you have to read yourself.

Now this broken family has a chance to heal – but can the Sais take it?ġ) Histrionic : Too emotional or too dramatic.Ģ) Ennui : A lack of spirit, enthusiasm or interest.ģ) Puritanical : Very strict especially concerning morals and religion.Ĥ) Kitsch : Things (such as movies or works of art) that are of low quality and that many people find amusing and enjoyable. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world – New York, London, West Africa, New England – on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is the victim of a grave injustice. The Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States.

In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelist. in America Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. Taiye Selasi is my second Queen of Literature, Chimamanda remains Number 1! (winks).īorn in London and raised in Massachusetts. I expected something different you know, seeing as it had a causal name – GHANA MUST GO. This book left me weak and numb, this book drained me, this book made me cry and scream “FUCK” several times. Hey guys, I was going to give a review on GHANA MUST GO, just the way I did with A.

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