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Thu, Feb 18
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Readings By Writers: Nadia Owusu
Aftershocks. Nadia recommends buying her book at your favorite independent bookstore or online at Books Are Magic. https://www.booksaremagic.net/?q=h.title.links&parms[eisbn]=rPCoGQ_-yAULIJl0YTKM1Q
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST
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About the Workshop
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award–winner Nadia Owusu about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with…