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03028aam a2200481 i 4500 001 C99447B8C84A11ECBE1F1D0654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220430010007 007 tb 008 211119t20222021meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021056671 020 $a 1432897527 020 $a 9781432897529 035 $a (OCoLC)1286072538 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d KAH $d KSL $d GO6 $d IUK $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Onuzo, Chibundu, $e author. 245 10 $a Sankofa / $c Chibundu Onuzo. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 419 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print Black voices 520 $a "A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew--only to find something far more complicated than she ever expected--in this "stirring narrative about family, our capacity to change and the need to belong" (Time). Anna is at a stage of her life when she's beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband, her daughter is all grown up, and her mother--the only parent who raised her--is dead. Searching through her mother's belongings one day, Anna finds clues about the African father she never knew. His student diaries chronicle his involvement in radical politics in 1970s London. Anna discovers that he eventually became the president--some would say dictator--of a small nation in West Africa. And he is still alive... When Anna decides to track her father down, a journey begins that is disarmingly moving, funny, and fascinating. Like the metaphorical bird that gives the novel its name, Sankofa expresses the importance of reaching back to knowledge gained in the past and bringing it into the present to address universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for a family's hidden roots. Examining freedom, prejudice, and personal and public inheritance, Sankofa is a story for anyone who has ever gone looking for a clear identity or home, and found something more complex in its place"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Large type books. 650 0 $a Women $x Race identity $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization in women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Bambara (African people) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Race relations $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa, West $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press Large Print Black Voices. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220802011240.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630015259.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220517010419.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C99447B8C84A11ECBE1F1D0654ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search