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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
“A beautiful exploration of the often complex parameters of freedom, prejudice, and individual sense of self. Chibundu Onuzo has written a captivating story about a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the West African father…
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This is an unusual “roots” book: Anna, a mixed-race child in England, discovers, after her mother’s death, a journal from her African father, whom she never knew. Library research reveals that he had been president of a small West African country known as “the Crocodile” and was alleged to have been involved in the murder of student activists. She bites, and I, as a reader, bit, too.
Anna goes to Africa to find, meet with, and reconcile with a father she never knew. He is a complex, occasionally scary, occasionally warm man, and we are drawn along her pathway of…
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