Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical JourneyA heart-warming book that answers the question: how do you define "family"? Once, as a small child, she realizes that her skin is a different color from that of her beloved parents, Jackie Kay embarks on a complicated and humorous journey to treasure the adoptive family that chose her, track down her birth parents—her Scottish Highland mother and Nigerian father—and embrace her unexpected and remarkable life.In a book shining with warmth, humor, and compassion, she discovers that inheritance is about more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells and that our internal landscapes are as important as those through which we move. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is revelatory, redemptive, and courageous, unique in its voice and universal in its reach. It is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny, and love. |
Contents
Section 16 | 152 |
Section 17 | 153 |
Section 18 | 165 |
Section 19 | 167 |
Section 20 | 173 |
Section 21 | 180 |
Section 22 | 202 |
Section 23 | 203 |
Section 9 | 59 |
Section 10 | 91 |
Section 11 | 93 |
Section 12 | 110 |
Section 13 | 114 |
Section 14 | 127 |
Section 15 | 132 |
Section 24 | 227 |
Section 25 | 243 |
Section 26 | 245 |
Section 27 | 280 |
Section 28 | 281 |
Section 29 | 288 |
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