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She offers the reader the vulnerability of memory on a 300-page platter. Like Picasso’s blue period, best writers are those who can provide panoramic images in the abstract peculiarity of pain and grief. Booklist calls Aftershocks a “stunning, visceral book about the ways that our stories – of loss, of love, of borders – leave permanent marks on our bodies and minds.”

— Shahe Mankerian

Listen to Owusu’s interview with NPR’s Scott Simon here.

Read a review in the New York Times here.

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