Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - Independent 'Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay 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. I kept my phone firmly in my bag, which is probably a good. It keeps changing its ending.įrom 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. This time we were reading Red Dust Road, her memoir about looking for her birth father in Nigeria. Get Full eBook File name 'RedDustRoad-JackieKay.pdf.

But the point about it is that it has no end. Download Book 'Red Dust Road' by Author 'Jackie Kay' in PDF EPUB. You think adoption is a story which has an end. Growing up in 70s Scotland as the adopted mixed raced child of a Communist couple, young Jackie blossoms into an outspoken, talented poet.

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