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oh wowww im glad i didn’t read this before reading the book i wouldn’t have wanted to know any of this, it was much more interesting to read it as it happened and be surprised

time to read the blurb

oh wait rereading the author description it makes a lot of sense that we ended the book with a girl whose family moved from ghana to hunstville alabama specifically

i knew the author was ghanaian but I forgot that she was also raised in hunstville

ok these sources of articles for her research for this book seem very interesting i will reference them later

thanks to my dad tho
im glad he let me visit nigeria at least once and that i have family from there that live here and that visit regularly

WHAT this is the last page?

this whole section has is so poetic and filled with dramatic irony

“He said something to Marjorie in Fante, and she swiped back in the halting, apologetic, Twi that she had been speaking all week.”

interesting so if you speak fante you can understand twi, i cant tell if id be able to understand yoruba if i were fluent in igbo but probably a little(?) im still studying (no thanks to my dad lol)


psa teach your kids their language so they don’t lose their culture

“How could he explain to Marjorie that he wasn’t supposed to be here? Alive. Free. That the fact that he had been born, that he wasn’t in a jail cell somewhere, was not by dint of his pulling himself up by the bootstraps, not by hard work or belief in the American dream, but by chance.”

“. . . of having been a part of some thing that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it – not apart from it, but inside of it.”


it and the consequences of it are everywhere