num_pages: 336
description: Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kwekus death sends a ripple around the world bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric exhilarating beautifully crafted Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent. Moving with great elegance through time and place Ghana Must Go charts the Sais circuitous journey to one another. In the wake of Kwekus death his children gather in Ghana at their enigmatic mothers new home. The eldest son and his wife; the mysterious beautiful twins; the baby sister now a young each carries secrets of his own. What is revealed in their coming together is the story of how they came the hearts broken the lies told the crimes committed in the name of love. Splintered alone each navigates his pain believing that what has been lost can never be recovereduntil in Ghana a new way forward a new family begins to emerge.Ghana Must Go is at once a portrait of a modern family and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York Ghana Must Go teaches that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.
language: English
title: Ghana Must Go
publisher: Penguin Press