Books by Taiye Selasi
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English
review 1: Ghana Must Go (2013) follows a Ghanaian/Nigerian family back and forth across the Atlantic as first the parents, then the children, must come to terms with transnational living: the losses it entails, the difficulties, eventually (possibly), the healing. The novel is told largel...
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English
review 1: The first half is super slow and confusing: introducing characters and family trees that quickly disappear, pages of internal dialogue from people we don't know yet, rapid changes in narrator and perspective.But, I'm really glad I stuck with this book. "Ghana Must Go" follows the...
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English
review 1: Some excellent descriptive passages do not build to make an engaging novel. The scatter approach does not grab me and doesn't build characters as people I can really care about. The relentless use of the present tense is something that just gets irritating after a while. The auth...