Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go is the poignant story of the Sai's, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in a wealthy neighborhood in Boston, US. Kweku Sai is a well respected "General Surgeon without equal, a knife-wielding artist."All was well until Kweku was unfairly laid off at the hospital. Unable to bear the shame, he abandons his wife and four children and moves to Ghana where he dies barefoot in his own garden.
Tackling questions of loss, regret, survival, the book goes on to tell the story of the Sai's family, how they cope and grapple with life in the absence of their father.
I wanted to love this book but I couldn't. While Selasi's writing was colorful and poetic, the plot left me wanting more. The book was a drag for me and I was desperate for it to end.
Rating: 2 bows
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