The God Child Av Nana Oforiatta Ayim

<p><b>''Meditative, gestural, philosophic: a brave reinvention of the immigrant narrative ... Unprecedented'' Taiye Selasi</b><br><br><b>''Adept, admirable, important'' <i>Guardian </i></b><br><br>Maya grows up in Germany in the shadow of her beautiful, volatile mother: a whirlwind, spinning stories of the family’s former glory. <br><br>Then Kojo arrives. Kojo has a way of talking about Ghana, and empire, and history - and for the first time, Maya understands that her parents are exiles. But fate intervenes, and the cousins are separated. <br><br>Returning to Ghana years later, Maya''s homecoming sets off an exorcism of her country’s darkest demons. In this destruction’s wake Maya realises her purpose: to tell the story of her mother her cousin, their land and their loss, in her own voice.</p>