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Synopsis
With an introduction by Nicola Sturgeon
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, the journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.
In a book shining with warmth, humour and compassion, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that our internal landscapes are as important as those through which we move.
Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is revelatory, redemptive and courageous, unique in its voice and universal in its reach. It is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny, and love.
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Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read. --The Independent
A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through. --The Sunday Times
The book sings with life... it is as warm and spirited, as funny and full of life, as her adoptive parents. --The Literary Review
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‘What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn’t make it up.’
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0330451057
- ISBN 13 9780330451055
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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