She manages a generous coverage of time and space with adroit concision, along with a vibrant range of characters. a powerful portrait of a broken family - Diana Evans * Guardian *Ī most impressive first novel. Taiye Selasi writes with glittering poetic command, a sense of daring, and a deep emotional investment in the lives and transformations of her characters. an unpredictable family story of love, abandonment, aspiration and migration - Claire Allfree * Metro * is technically ambitious, poetically dense. Taiye Selasi is the woman the literary world is drooling over. miss out on Ghana Must Go and you will miss one of the best new novels of the season * The Economist * An astonishing debut - Teju Cole, author of * Open City *Īn eye for the perfect detail. With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period. Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members.

Read it and you will feel what great literature can do: you will feel you are more vividly alive - Anna Funder At times I felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about love and blood and the ties that bind. This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. An astonishing debut' Teju Cole, author of Open City

'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it? Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice.

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States. A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Ghana must go book review