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Bloomsbury Circus
November 2019
On Sale: November 14, 2019
256 pages
ISBN: 1408882426
EAN: 9781408882429
Kindle: B07QZXY7L4
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Fiction | Historical
Maya is the only child of an expat Ghanaian couple based
in Germany, where as the sole African girl in her school,
the pressure is on her to succeed. While her father is
taciturn and reserved, her mother-heir to a crumbling
dynasty in Ghana-is glamorous and charismatic. Maya is both
in awe of and intimidated by her overbearing beauty and her
ability to command a room, especially with tales of the
family's former glory that seem so far removed from Maya's
reality. But when Maya's mother adopts her god child, Kojo,
his mission to heal their story begins to bring to Maya the
sense of possibility and purpose she has longed for.
The God Child is a coming-of-age story
about a young girl finding her freedom in the midst of
familial, cultural, and political constraints. With a
bracing combination of power and vulnerability, Ayim's debut
is about how families, and nations, overcome the limitations
of the past through the cycles of generations.
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