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How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. What followed, however, were periods of depression in which she struggled to hold herself and her siblings together. “A magnificent, complex assessment of selfhood and why it matters” (Elle), Aftershocks depicts the way she hauled herself from the wreckage of her life’s perpetual quaking, the means by which she has finally come to understand that the only ground firm enough to count on is the one written into existence by her own hand. “Full of narrative risk and untrammeled lyricism” (The Washington Post), 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.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2ezfaspm4khb55e9hdag3g.jpg?v=abd45b6424","LZM3Tb=Y}qW,:+O=,pt7BoIpwgV[",2021,[651],{"id":652,"slug":653,"name":654},"01kx2ezfanvz9stpf6aa86geg2","nadia-owusu-iafq","Nadia Owusu",[656,657,658],{"id":35,"name":36,"slug":37,"is_fiction":19},{"id":39,"name":40,"slug":41,"is_fiction":19},{"id":144,"name":145,"slug":146,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":162,"complexity":7,"audience":106,"mood":661,"themes":662,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[108,164,109],[],{"id":664,"slug":665,"title":666,"description":667,"primary_cover_url":668,"cover_blurhash":669,"first_publish_year":670,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":17,"page_count":671,"authors":672,"genres":677,"series":680,"enrichment":681},"01kx2e3y3d5g9mbezqtnwr2hpq","beyond-the-whiteness-of-whiteness-e9ep","Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness","\"I am Black,\" Jane Lazarre's son tells her. \"I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me.\" She understands, she says - but he tells her, gently, that he doesn't think so, that she can't understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre's memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the nature of whiteness in a way that passionately informs the connections between herself and her family. A moving account of life in a biracial family, this book is a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America, the story of an education into the realities of African American culture. Lazarre has spent over twenty-five years living in a Black American family, married to an African American man, birthing and raising two sons. 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Recalling events that opened her eyes to her sons' and husband's experience as Black Americans - an operation, turned into a horrific nightmare by a doctor's unconscious racism; the jarring truths brought home by a visit to an exhibit on slavery at the Richmond Museum of the Confederacy - or her own revealing missteps, Lazarre describes a movement from silence to voice, to a commitment to action, and to an appreciation of the value of a fluid, even ambiguous identity. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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Struggling to be, or at least to imitate, a straight man, through Ivy League halls of privilege and bohemian travels abroad, loveless intimacy and unrequited passion, Paul Monette was haunted, and finally saved, by a dream of \"the thing I'd never even seen: two men in love and laughing.\" Searingly honest, witty, and humane, Becoming a Man is the definitive coming-out story in the classic coming-of-age genre.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2cadddmbj46cs9hrb1a6xc.jpg?v=193235435c","LZN*?vRQ-pxu_OxtRPWB*|RQWVWB",2004,308,[740],{"id":741,"slug":742,"name":743},"01kkvp6860rrg5ndfky7h5ps64","paul-monette-syxx","Paul 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She worked in the social work field and witnessed a lot of the things that can go wrong with it, and she suggested I read this book as part of my research into whether I wanted to change careers and head into the world of social work.  I'm glad she recommended it.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>This is the memoir of a young woman who spent about 8 years of her life in the foster care system in Florida and the abuses she suffered at the hands of one of her foster homes, as well as the happy times she experienced.  Ashley Coulter-Rhodes is currently in college and this story was very touching and heartbreaking.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Ashley was taken from her mother at a young age and went into the care of the state foster care system.  She and her younger brother were separated when he was just a baby and it was several years before she was reunited with him.  The memoir itself is scattered, much like memories of a childhood that one is not sure she really had.  Unfortunately, Ashley was done a great disservice by her various social workers and case managers, which is evidenced by the boxes of paperwork her adopted parents and attorney gather in order to file a civil suit against the state and one of her foster care families.  She had over 20 of each and there were times when documents in her files were falsified and even lost.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>Ashley's story came to the attention of Hillary Clinton when she was First Lady and Ashley ended up being invited to the White House to speak about her experiences.  This came about due to an essay she wrote for a magazine contest.  She's been travelling around the country telling her story and educating people about the numerous flaws in the foster care system in this country.  Ashley and her brother were abused by foster parents and neglected by case workers.  By the time she arrived in the home of the couple who would later adopt her, she was extremely distrustful of adults and figured that at any time this couple would not want her and return her to the \"home\" they found her at.  That didn't happen, instead they adopted her and then, after seeing a news report that the abusive couple Ashley had spent so many years with had been charged with numerous counts of child abuse, helped her bring a lawsuit against the couple.\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>I really enjoyed this story and was saddened at the nightmarish childhood Ashley had.  Her story is similar to ones I have read about and it seems that there are significant problems with the foster care system here in the United States.  It seems that it is too understaffed and overworked to truly protect those placed in its care -- young children.  I definitely want to change careers and head into the social work field where I hope to make some sort of positive difference in the life of at least one child.  Ashley had that person in her GAL.  I thought Ashley's story was astounding and I hope to attend a speech she gives at some point in the future.  This is not the best written memoir I've ever read, but it's definitely one that caught my attention and left me a slightly changed human being.","none","rv-01kx29j81wz7gfn87hp7fcgaa9",[],"2026-07-09T01:58:33.000000Z"]