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Ghana must go - a novel by Taiye Selasi

"We did what we knew. It was what we knew. Leaving.... We were immigrants. Immigrants leave." Ghana must go is a beautifully, almost flawlessly written novel by author  Taiye Selasi , born in London, raised in Boston, living in New York, New Delhi, Rome - WOW! That is impressing. I saw pictures of her and she is drop-dead-beautiful too. Like the parents in the book, her parents are from Nigeria and from Ghana, immigrants. Like the four siblings in the book, she was raised in Boston. I read a review which stated, it might be, could be, slightly autobiographical, she being the twinsister Taiwo in the story. I don't know if it is necessary to always try to discover, what is autobiographical about a book one reads and if at all it is the right of the reader to know. Either way an author shows a lot about herself, writing such a deep and moving novel. I missed her public reading in Berlin, which I deeply regret. I think, to see this woman and hear her read must be quite an...