Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts. She holds a B.A. in American Studies from Yale and an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford. In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists.
This book is rich and deep, mesmerizing and spectacular. At times I
felt it opened a portal onto something grand and profound about
love and blood and the ties that bind. Read it and you will feel
what great literature can do: you will feel you are more vividly
alive
*Anna Funder*
Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes
and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members. With
her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does
more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews
our sense of the novel, period. An astonishing debut
*Open City*
An eye for the perfect detail . . . an unforgettable voice on the
page . . . miss out on Ghana Must Go and you will miss one of the
best new novels of the season
*The Economist*
Taiye Selasi is the woman the literary world is drooling over . . .
[Ghana Must Go] is technically ambitious, poetically dense . . . an
unpredictable family story of love, abandonment, aspiration and
migration
*Metro*
Taiye Selasi writes with glittering poetic command, a sense of
daring, and a deep emotional investment in the lives and
transformations of her characters . . . a powerful portrait of a
broken family
*Guardian*
A most impressive first novel. . . She manages a generous coverage
of time and space with adroit concision, along with a vibrant range
of characters. The family is so convincing, with those telling
problems of divided culture. Very much a novel of today
*Penelope Lively*
Taiye Selasi is a young writer of staggering gifts and
extraordinary sensitivity. Ghana Must Go seems to contain the
entire world, and I shall never forget it
*Eat, Pray, Love*
With mesmerizing craftsmanship and massive imagination [Taiye
Selasi] takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across
continents and most importantly deeply into the lives of the people
whom she writes about. She de-"exoticizes" whole populations and
demographics and brings them firmly into the readers view as
complicated and complex human beings. Ghana Must Go is a big novel,
elemental, meditative, and mesmerizing
*The Kid and Push*
In Ghana Must Go, Selasi drives the six characters skillfully
through past and present, unearthing old betrayals and unexplained
grievances at a delicious pace. By the time the surviving five
convene at a funeral in Ghana, we are invested in their
reconciliation--which is both realistically shaky and dramatically
satisfying ... Narrative gold
*Elle*
Selasi's ambition - to show her readers not "Africa" but one
African family, authors of their own achievements and failures - is
one that can be applauded no matter what accent you give the
word
*The New York Times*
The first line of Taiye Selasi's buoyant first novel, Ghana Must
Go, captures the book in miniature: "Kweku dies barefoot on a
Sunday before sunrise, his slippers by the doorway to the bedroom
like dogs." The springy dactylic meter of the prose (KWEku dies
BAREfoot on a . . .), the sly internal rhymes (Sunday, sunrise,
doorway), the surprising twist on a cliché (to die like a dog), the
invigorating mixture of darkness and drollery are a big part of
what makes this book such a joy... It's an auspicious how-do-you-do
to the world, and nearly every page of the novel displays the same
bounce and animation... rapturous.
*Wall Street Journal*
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