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In Conversation: On Aftershocks: A Memoir

In Conversation: On Aftershocks: A Memoir

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Owusu, Nadia, Headlee, Celeste
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In Aftershocks: A Memoir, Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner Nadia Owusu tells a tale of constant change and loss. Her father, a Ghanaian United Nations official, was constantly moving and then died when she was 13. Her mother had already abandoned her when she was just 2, then reappeared only to vanish again. The only firm ground she stands upon is the one written into existence by her own hand. Moderated by Celeste Headlee, author of Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism – and How to Do It.

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Owusu, Nadia

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Brooklyn-based writer and urban planner Nadia Owusu’s Aftershocks: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster) is a tale of survival and finding identity amid the wreckage of a life marked by constant change and loss. It’s an instability wrought by her nomadic childhood, deepened by family secrets and fractures both lived and inherited. Her mother abandoned her when she was 2, then reappeared only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian United Nations official, constantly moved his family around the world until he died when she was 13. With these and other ruptures, Owusu arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. The New York Times noted that “Owusu is unflinching in examining herself … In the end, Owusu ultimately answers what home is. Her definition is pure and restorative to read. ‘I am made of the earth, flesh, ocean, blood, and bone of all the places I tried to belong to and all the people I long for. I am pieces. I am whole. I am home.’”

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Celeste Headlee is a journalist, professional speaker, and the author of We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter and Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. She is a regular guest host on NPR and American Public Media, and a consultant who advises companies around the world on conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion.

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