- HarperCollins
- 2021
- Gebunden
- 240 Seiten
- ISBN 9781328841582
A Kirkus Reviews Best Memoir of 2021 The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short- lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles?a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is ?first son of the first son? of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie's strict religious household in Jamaica, where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: ?Is this the boy? Is this him?? Chude-Sokei's immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother, who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime ?Jackie O
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