Description
| Product ID: | 9781509858392 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Title: | Red Dust Road |
| Subtitle: | Picador Classic |
| Authors: | Author: Jackie Kay |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Social discrimination and social justice, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Memoirs, Social discrimination & inequality, Adoption, Scotland |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay. <p><b>Journeying from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, <i>Red Dust Road</i> is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.</b><br><br><b>With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.</b><br><br>From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay’s journey in <i>Red Dust Road</i> is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions.<br><br>In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love.<br><br><b>‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. <i>Red Dust Road </i>is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – <i>Independent</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-10-19 |