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Taiye Selasi
Born
London, The United Kingdom
Website
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Genre
Influences
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Ghana Must Go
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2013
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57 editions
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Love Your Curls: A poetic tribute to curly hair inspired by real women
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2015
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2 editions
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Un reino de olivos y ceniza: Escritores contra la ocupación de Palestina
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2017
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27 editions
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Palestina
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Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York
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2014
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8 editions
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Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara
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2014
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13 editions
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Anansi and the Golden Pot
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New Daughters of Africa
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2019
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13 editions
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Driver
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2013
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Aliens of Extraordinary Ability
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“They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all.
They were dreamer-women.
Very dangerous women.
Who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.
So, insatiable women.
Un-pleasable women.”
― Ghana Must Go
They were dreamer-women.
Very dangerous women.
Who looked at the world through their wide dreamer-eyes and saw it not as it was, "brutal, senseless," etc., but worse, as it might be or might yet become.
So, insatiable women.
Un-pleasable women.”
― Ghana Must Go
“And what happens to daughters whose mothers betray them? They don’t become huggable like Sadie, Taiwo thinks. They don’t become giggly, adorable like Ling. They grow shells. Become hardened. They stop being girls. Though they look like girls and act like girls and flirt like girls and kiss like girls—really, they’re generals, commandos at war, riding out at first light to preempt further strikes. With an army behind them, their talents their horsemen, their brilliance and beauty and anything else they may have at their disposal dispatched into battle to capture the castle, to bring back the Honor. Of course it doesn’t work. For they burn down the village in search of the safety they lost, every time, Taiwo knows.”
― Ghana Must Go
― Ghana Must Go
“He feels a second pang now for the existence of perfection, the stubborn existence of perfection in the most vulnerable of things and in the face of his refusal-logical-admirable refusal-to engage with this existence in his heart, in his mind. For the comfortless logic, the curse of clear sight, no matter which string he pulls on the same wretched knot: (a) the futility of seeing given the fatality in a place such as this where a mother still bloody must bury her newborn, hose off, and go home to pound yam into paste; (b) the persistence of beauty, in fragility of all places!, in a dewdrop at daybreak, a thing that will end, and in moments, and in a garden, and in Ghana, lush Ghana, soft Ghana, verdant Ghana, where fragile things die.”
― Ghana Must Go
― Ghana Must Go
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| Literary Fiction ...: Granta List of 20 under 40 released! | 10 | 62 | Apr 20, 2013 07:35AM | |
| Shut Up & Read: Michael's Challenges 2013 | 2 | 137 | May 12, 2013 06:18PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: What to Read June 2013 - Moderator Pick has been chosen | 14 | 80 | May 30, 2013 04:02PM | |
The Seasonal Read...:
Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!
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2808 | 780 | May 31, 2013 09:02PM | |
| Historical Fictio...: May 2013 TBR Challenge: Report Points Here | 233 | 129 | Jun 05, 2013 08:41PM | |
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21st Century Lite...:
July 2013 - Open Pick nominations
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38 | 96 | Jun 10, 2013 05:05PM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Discussion: Ghana Must Go | 142 | 255 | Aug 04, 2013 11:07PM | |
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All About Books:
October 2013 - Fiction Read Nominations
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51 | 108 | Aug 29, 2013 12:07PM |
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