This is a multigenerational story and it feels like reading a journal. Narrated from the perspectives of Whitney, Gloria and Aretha. It takes back to Ghana in mid 90s and London. For immigrants, life has not been easy, author has shared the struggle of being a black british and how generational trauma affects an individual. The book is reminiscing, emotional and mysterious. The main character finally decides to acknowledge the trauma and heal. The memories of Kumasi unveils the truth.

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I was floored by this novel. It is absolutely going to be in my top five of 2024 for sure.

It's such a beautiful and heartbreaking story of family, unknown and known, grief, trauma, and love. The shared perspectived were a wonderful insight into both generations of women whom we got to know throught the book.

I want to say more but I just don't feel like I have ample words to describe it. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with this story and these characters. Maame Blue is definitely an author I am going to be keeping an eye on in the future!

Although Whitney Appiah is deeply sensitive to the needs of her massage service clients - helping them to resolve issues in the body resulting from a variety of traumas that they have experienced - she is somehow far less aware about her own trauma and the effects that it has had on her life.

Because Whitney belongs to a Ghanaian family that relocated in the UK. And she has many unresolved issues of her own related to her cultural identity and family dynamics.

When an event triggers her deeply buried past memories, Whitney realises that she must revisit her past in order to deal with her demons, many of which stem from experiences in her early life growing up in Ghana.

This story is told from multiple POV, has intergenerational elements, and deals with some profound and painful issues including racism identity and cultural trauma. Worth a read. It gets 3.5 stars.