Aftershocks

Nadia Owusu blends memoir with cultural history as she explores her own complex identity. Her story is structured around the different stages of an earthquake, and swings back and forth in time and between the places she has lived – Tanzania, England, Italy, Ethiopia, Uganda and New York, where she becomes so depressed she barely moves from a blue rocking chair she had pulled off the street and hauled up to her Manhattan apartment. Owusu writes about multiple identities with insight as she pieces together who she is and where she belongs.