The Rest of You: A Hopeful Black British Family Drama of Friendship, Trauma, and Healing - Couverture souple

Blue, Maame

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0063375966 ISBN 13 : 9780063375963

Editeur : Amistad, 2024

Synopsis

An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful family saga—a potent blend of Queenie and The Vanishing Half—about a woman’s journey to uncover a foundational family secret from the childhood she does not remember.

On the cusp of thirty, Ghanaian Londoner Whitney Appiah was born with a special gift. The massage therapist can physically sense where her clients’ trauma lies and heal them. But Whitney has no idea that she too, is suffering. Tragic events from her youth have left a terrible, unseen mark. When a dangerous encounter with the man she’s dating triggers a wave of fragmented recollections, Whitney embarks on a journey to reclaim her memories and the truth that is buried deep in her early years growing up in Kumasi, Ghana during the 1990s.

Spanning three decades and told through multiple viewpoints, this compelling dual timeline novel explores what happens when we try to move forward through the lacuna of our past.

A strikingly original work of Black British fiction inspired by the Twi proverb of Sankofa: looking back in order to move forward, The Rest of You is a story of generational healing, the bonds between sisters, and surviving familial migrant journeys. Tackling darkly serious themes yet full of hope and optimism, and told with an eye towards the future, Maame Blue’s extraordinary tale is an unforgettable celebration of womanhood, friendship, and family.

But to heal her own past, she must first remember it. What happens when the truth is more devastating than the forgetting?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Maame Blue is a Ghanaian-Londoner and award-winning author of the novel Bad Love, which won the 2021 Betty Trask Award, and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize. She has been a scriptwriter on a Venezuelan telenovela remixed for African audiences, and her short stories have appeared in several international anthologies, including Not Quite Right For Us, New Australian Fiction 2020, and Joyful, Joyful. Maame is a recipient of the 2022 Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and was a 2022 POCC Artist-in-Residence. Maame contributes regularly to Writers Mosaic and has written pieces for Refinery29, Black Ballad, and Society of Authors Magazine. She is a Faber Academy and City Lit Creative Writing Tutor and regularly runs creative writing workshops. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amistad
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0063375966
• ISBN 13: 9780063375963
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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