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Her other writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the New York Times, Literary Review, and Epiphany, among other publications. Series: Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. Lee gratis Aftershocks: A Memoir de Nadia Owusu Disponible como E-books y audiolibros Prueba gratuita durante 30 días. “A memoir that broods on lost identity and statelessness” ( Elle), this debut book tells the story of the nomadic childhood she spent following her Ghanaian diplomat father across Africa and Europe and her arrival in New York in the wake of his death.

Nadia Owusu won a 2019 Whiting Award for her work on Aftershocks. Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again.

'In Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu tells the incredible.

In conversation with writer and librarian Maisy Card, author of These Ghosts Are Family In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this 'gorgeous' ( The New York Times, Editors' Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the 'incredible story' (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. Heralding a dazzling new writer, Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does for gender identity in The Argonauts.