Rootless : a novel / Krystle Zara Appiah.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593500453 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0593500458 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 351 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2023.
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Subject: | Married people > Fiction. Motherhood > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction. Ghanaians > England > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | APPIA K (Text) | 33126020796342 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | APPIA K (Text) | 33126020796300 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2023 March
DEBUT Giving voice to the misgivings around motherhood and the pressures that those closest to us can bring to bear on pivotal decisions, this debut cracks the personal and familial wide open. Efe met Sam when she first arrived in the UK from Ghana in 1997. Sam was an earlier arrival from Ghana, already familiar with school in England. Nineteen years later, Sam races up the steps to their London apartment, breathlessly looking for Efe and the £1,300 missing from their bank account, while their young daughter Liv asks after her mother. The years from meet-cute to missing mother take readers on an intimate and painful journey with Efe as she grapples with cultural and familial forces that shape her life and decisions. Does she want a child? Sam does, and he makes no secret of it, pressuring Efe. Efe feels torn between her family community in Ghana and the less familiar, fast-paced material life in London. How could she grow to understand herself, much less raise a family she's not sure she even wants, in this uncertain environment?
Copyright 2023 Library Journal.VERDICT Appiah's storytelling is heartrending, with a sharp insight that few have dared attempt.âJulie Kane