Aftershocks: A Memoir is a 2020 memoir book by Nadia Owusu, published by Simon & Schuster,[1] which won the 2019 nonfiction Whiting Award.[2] The book is a memoir covering personal, political and historical levels related to the author's origins and itinerant upbringing in several African and European countries accompanied by her caring although globetrotting father from Ghana. Despite their intense nomadism, her father nurtured her affective and cultural bonding to their Asante ethnic roots in West Africa, where they traveled every year to visit relatives and friends. The memoir spans her early childhood to her late twenties. Having been abandoned by her Armenian mother when she was 2 years old, Nadia orphaned from her father when she was 13, following which she battles over the years to summon a historically contextualized, confident self as a young adult to gain socially minded, high level education and employment in the United States.
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| Author | Nadia Owusu |
|---|---|
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 2020 |
Reception
editThe book was reviewed by The New York Times,[3] The Guardian,[4] The Washington Post,[5] and NPR.[6]
References
edit- ^ Owusu, Nadia (2021). Aftershocks : a memoir (First ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-9821-1122-9. OCLC 1124336435.
- ^ "Nadia Owusu". Whiting. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (13 January 2021). "In 'Aftershocks,' a Search for Home in a Life Around the World". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ Liu, Rebecca (April 2021). "Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu review – a search for home". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ Winik, Marion. "Nadia Owusu's 'Aftershocks' is a moving tale of identity, loss and finding home". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
- ^ Corrigan, Maureen. "'Aftershocks' Is A Powerful Memoir Of A Life Upended — Then Pieced Back Together". NPR. Retrieved 17 August 2021.