Description
| Product ID: | 9781529077230 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Title: | Red Dust Road |
| Authors: | Author: Jackie Kay |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A memoir and soul-searching journey by Jackie Kay. <p><b>Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books</b><br><br><i>You think adoption is a story which has an end. But the point about it is that it has no end. It keeps changing its ending.</i><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. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay 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>Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, <i>Red Dust Road</i> is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny.<br><br>‘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><br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern </b><b>literature.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-17 |