Ghana Must Go

This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. At times I felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about love and blood and the ties that bind. Read it and you will feel what great literature can do: you will feel you are more vividly alive – Anna Funder
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. 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. An astonishing debut – Teju Cole, author of * Open City *
An eye for the perfect detail … an unforgettable voice on the page … miss out on Ghana Must Go and you will miss one of the best new novels of the season * The Economist *
Taiye Selasi is the woman the literary world is drooling over … [Ghana Must Go] is technically ambitious, poetically dense … an unpredictable family story of love, abandonment, aspiration and migration – Claire Allfree * Metro *
Taiye Selasi writes with glittering poetic command, a sense of daring, and a deep emotional investment in the lives and transformations of her characters … a powerful portrait of a broken family – Diana Evans * Guardian *
A most impressive first novel… She manages a generous coverage of time and space with adroit concision, along with a vibrant range of characters. The family is so convincing, with those telling problems of divided culture. Very much a novel of today – Penelope Lively
Taiye Selasi is a young writer of staggering gifts and extraordinary sensitivity. Ghana Must Go seems to contain the entire world, and I shall never forget it – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of * Eat, Pray, Love *
With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination [Taiye Selasi] takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people whom she writes about. She de-“exoticizes” whole populations and demographics and brings them firmly into the readers view as complicated and complex human beings. Ghana Must Go is a big novel, elemental, meditative, and mesmerizing – Sapphire, author of * The Kid and Push *
In Ghana Must Go, Selasi drives the six characters skillfully through past and present, unearthing old betrayals and unexplained grievances at a delicious pace. By the time the surviving five convene at a funeral in Ghana, we are invested in their reconciliation–which is both realistically shaky and dramatically satisfying … Narrative gold * Elle *
Selasi’s ambition - to show her readers not “Africa” but one African family, authors of their own achievements and failures - is one that can be applauded no matter what accent you give the word – Nell Freudenberger * The New York Times *

Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta’s 20 Best Young British Novelists.

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