A family absolved, ultimately, by that bitter but most tenuous bond: familial love. This is the story of a family: torn apart by lies, reunited by grief. Until, one day, tragedy spins the Sais in a new direction. All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. 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.
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