SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021**
From the bestselling author of Homegoing** As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers.
But when her mother...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021**
From the bestselling author of Homegoing** As a child Gifty would ask her paren...