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Red Dust Road
by Jackie Kay - £9.99 Pan Macmillan (Picador) (2017)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393
'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'
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.
(Price & availability last checked: February 2018)
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