Red Dust Road

Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping memoir, a story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay''s journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. ''Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read'' - Independent

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Kay
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781509858392
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5839-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Adoption, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Scotland, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Autobiography: literary, Relating to Black British African people, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Autobiography: writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, memoir; family; family life; scottish; scotland; Scots Makar