Ghana Must Go

Ghana Must Go is the stunning debut novel by Taiye Selasi — a dazzling tapestry about a family’s collapse and redemption, told in luminous, intimate prose. When Kweku Sai, a renowned surgeon and beloved patriarch, dies in Ghana, he sends shock waves across continents to his estranged family — his wife Folasadé in Boston and their four children scattered across two countries. As they reassemble to grieve, the family pieces together the stories they never shared and the secret at the heart of their fracture. A novel of breathtaking beauty about love, loss, ambition, and the bonds that hold a family together even as the world tears it apart.