"I don't think I'm entirely guiltless there, but it's more the recognizability of the image than the mere fact that she's a looker. "You're just influenced by her appearance? How shallow." I mean with over 100,000 new books being published each year in the UK alone, there's no way to escape the danger of being led down the marketing path really, is there? I mean I read some reviews, but they've all been blinded too, by the celebrity endorsements from Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, and they can hardly fail to be impressed by the appeal of a strikingly good-looking young woman author, it makes for an attractive opener on the front page of the review section, doesn't it? So yes, once I'd seen that amazing portrait of her on the front page of the literature supplement in Die Zeit, wearing a purple quilted coat that on anyone else would have reminded me of a dressing gown, and then read about her, yes, she got lodged in my mind as worth looking out for." "So what d'you reckon, did you fall for the hype on this one?" In a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, Ghana Must Go teaches that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide. Ghana Must Go is at once a portrait of a modern family, and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are. Splintered, alone, each navigates his pain, believing that what has been lost can never be recovered-until, in Ghana, a new way forward, a new family, begins to emerge. What is revealed in their coming together is the story of how they came the hearts broken, the lies told, the crimes committed in the name of love.
The eldest son and his wife the mysterious, beautiful twins the baby sister, now a young each carries secrets of his own. In the wake of Kweku’s death, his children gather in Ghana at their enigmatic mother’s new home. Moving with great elegance through time and place, Ghana Must Go charts the Sais’ circuitous journey to one another. Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra.
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