All of them sent reeling on their disparate paths into the world. It is the story of one family, the Sais, whose good life crumbles in an evening a Ghanaian father, Kweku Sai, who becomes a highly respected surgeon in the US only to be disillusioned by a grotesque injustice his Nigerian wife, Fola, the beautiful homemaker abandoned in his wake their eldest son, Olu, determined to reconstruct the life his father should have had their twins, seductive Taiwo and acclaimed artist Kehinde, both brilliant but scarred and flailing their youngest, Sadie, jealously in love with her celebrity best friend. This is the story of a family - of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the incredible lengths to which a family will go to put itself back together. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, Ghana Must Go teaches that the truths we speak can heal the wounds we hide.A big, moving, contemporary novel for readers of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ghana Must Go is at once a portrait of a modern family, and an exploration of the importance of where we come from to who we are.

Splintered, alone, each navigates his pain, believing that what has been lost can never be recovered-until, in Ghana, a new way forward, a new family, begins to emerge. What is revealed in their coming together is the story of how they came apart: the hearts broken, the lies told, the crimes committed in the name of love. The eldest son and his wife the mysterious, beautiful twins the baby sister, now a young woman: each carries secrets of his own. In the wake of Kweku’s death, his children gather in Ghana at their enigmatic mother’s new home. Moving with great elegance through time and place, Ghana Must Go charts the Sais’ circuitous journey to one another.

Electric, exhilarating, beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go is a testament to the transformative power of unconditional love, from a debut novelist of extraordinary talent. The news of Kweku’s death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra.

Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi