NADIA OWUSU’s debut memoir, Aftershocks, was selected as a best book of 2021 by Time, Vogue, Esquire, The Guardian, NPR, the BBC, and others. It was one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and a 2021 Goodreads Choice Award nominee. It was selected by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai for her Literati book club.


In a literary landscape rich with diaspora memoirs, Owusu’s painful yet radiant story rises to the forefront. The daughter of an Armenian-American mother who abandoned her and a heroic Ghanaian father who died when she was thirteen, Nadia drifted across continents in a trek that she renders here with poetic, indelible prose.
— O Magazine
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A gorgeous and unsettling memoir.”

— New York Times

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Aftershocks is available as an audiobook, read by the author from Simon Audio. 

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Aftershocks: UK Edition

Aftershocks is also available in the UK from Sceptre, the literary imprint of Hodder & Stoughton.

 
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“This extraordinary memoir is a seismic tale of unravelling her sense of self from a tangle of different languages and homelands. Owusu is a writer to watch.”

BOOKSELLER (UK), EDITOR'S CHOICE