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Kweku has been a respected ghanaian surgeon in the us, with a loyal spouse and four children an aspirational family living in. Despite these challenges, ghana must go moved my soul, which is why i rated it four stars. Family sagas generally start with a joyous birthor, as in the case of taiye selasi s debut novel, an unexpected death. Id been waiting, thirty years i think, to write a novelthat is, to receive a story worthy of the form. Moving with great elegance through time and place, ghana must go. The novel is told largely through back story as it begins with the fathers death in ghana where he has gone after leaving his. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The novel follows the sai family as they come to terms with their father kweku sais death, and as they work through family troubles. Having just come back from a tour, selasi is irked and perplexed by the consistently inconsistent way she was continue reading.
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