| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 299 pages ; cm |
| 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 |
Foreshocks -- Unwelcome Reunion -- Aches -- The Blue Chair -- The Blue Chair -- Day Zero -- Topography -- Navel -- Photograph -- Colonial Mentality -- Blood Trauma -- The Blue Chair -- 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 -- Faults -- Filures of Language -- Fault Zone Voice -- Queen -- The Blue Chair -- Day Three -- Day Four -- Aftershocks -- Orphan -- Panic -- Baby Fever -- Mainshocks -- Devices -- An American Terror -- A Heavy Burden -- The Blue Chair -- Day Five -- Day Six -- Day Seven -- Terraforming -- God Is Dead, Long Live God -- Maternal Guidance -- The Liminal -- Libation -- Home. |
| Subject |
Owusu, Nadia, 1981-
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| Subject(S) |
Racially mixed women -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed women -- Race identity -- United States.
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Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
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Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781982111229 (hardcover) |
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1982111224 (hardcover) |
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