(Simon & Schuster) It is often said you can learn a lot by walking in someone else’s shoes, and this gifted writer, Nadia Owusu, winner of a Whiting Award, in this, her first book, allows you to do just that. This literary memoir reads almost like a novel, it is so well-crafted and lyrical and moving and nuanced. Owusu includes the reader in her search for her identity, her belonging. After leaving the author and her sister with her Ghanian father, her Armenian American mother remarried and had additional c … (read more)
