Ghana must go - Taiye Selasi

A stunning novel, spanning generations and continents, Ghana Must Go by rising star Taiye Selasi is a tale of family drama and forgiveness, for fans of Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Meet the Sais, a Nigerian-Ghanaian family living in the United States.

A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice.

Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, West Africa, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them.

Now this broken family has a chance to heal - but can the Sais take it? 'Ghana Must Go is both a fast moving story of one family's fortunes and an ecstatic exploration of the inner lives of its members.

With her perfectly-pitched prose and flawless technique, Selasi does more than merely renew our sense of the African novel: she renews our sense of the novel, period.

An astonishing debut' Teju Cole, author of Open City Taiye Selasi was born in London and raised in Massachusetts.

She holds a B.

in American Studies from Yale and an M.

in International Relations from Oxford.

In 2013 she was selected as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists.