![]() ![]() Each character mourns Kweku and thinks back to an earlier, more idyllic time when they were all a unit.īut that was before Kweku walked away from his family years previously after losing his job. He leaves behind many who mourn his passing: Folasade, his estranged wife Olu, his eldest son the twins, Taiwo and Kehinde and Sadie, his youngest daughter. Kweku Sai, “an exceptional surgeon” and “prodigal prodigy,” dies from an “unexceptional heart attack” in Ghana, his homeland, at the age of 57. Selasi underscores the importance of mending their rift it’s now or never for the Sai family. Together, the remaining family members face the past, in all its ugliness, to generate healing. In Selasi’s tale, the patriarch’s passing leads to a kind of reckoning. The death of Kweku Sai, the afore-mentioned patriarch, brings his relations together again to air grievances and lick old wounds. ![]() ![]() The Sai clan was already splintered prior to the father’s passing. ![]() Usually, the death of a patriarch signals a family’s collapse, but that is not the case in Ghana Must Go. These seemingly trivial and innocuous moments carry profound meaning in Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi’s searing, significant, and intricately carved novel. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi (Penguin Press 336 pages $25.95).Ī pair of slippers. ![]()
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