{"product_id":"aftershocks-dispatches-from-the-frontlines-of-identity-hardcover","title":"Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Brilliant and devastating...tender and lacerating' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePANDORA SYKES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'One of the literary world's most promising new voices' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eRED\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eI have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWhen Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania back to the US. When she was thirteen her beloved Ghanaian father died of cancer. She and her sister were left alone, with a stepmother they didn't like, adrift.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It's no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It's no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAftershocks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the account of how she hauled herself out of the wreckage. It is the intimate story behind the news of immigration and division dominating contemporary politics. Nadia Owusu's astonishingly moving and incredibly timely memoir is a nuanced portrait of globalisation from the inside in a fractured world in crisis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sceptre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52144825401677,"sku":"OT-G08C-CO5K","price":8.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0783\/9147\/6557\/files\/71KVvP-yf3L._SY522.jpg?v=1754395259","url":"https:\/\/thebookbus.co.uk\/products\/aftershocks-dispatches-from-the-frontlines-of-identity-hardcover","provider":"The Book Bus","version":"1.0","type":"link"}