Book description
Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.
With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.
From the moment when, as a little girl,…
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My heart leaps when I think of this story.
It’s magical. poignant, deeply felt, and not always the easiest journey, but a beautiful, heartfelt one, as she seeks out her biological parents – a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father – and their descendants.
To me, she’s a sweet, radiant, nervous shining light of hope. I felt I was right next to her as she went on her search. It was like a detective story. She had quite a team of people helping her, and I was on that support team too. I felt like she allowed me to climb…
From Eileen's list on memoirs with heartwarming travels.
Jackie and her brother were adopted by a loving working-class family in Glasgow. They were communists and thoughtful about the adoption process. Jackie becomes a beloved poet and a wonderful public performer. She was recently made the Poet Laureate of Scotland – The Scots Makar. In this book, she traces her childhood and her quest to meet her father in Lagos and to discover her biological parentage and story. It’s a story of belonging and of not belonging. Of finding, fitting, and not fitting. It moves and uplifts us.
From Susie's list on contemporary memoirs by women.
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