![]() ![]() ![]() From there we return to Jackie’s childhood, in Glasgow, her student days and the beginnings of her search for her identity. The meeting is related with humour – despite the fact her father is not quite the man she had hoped he would be. The book opens in fact in 2009 with the author meeting her birth father in a hotel in Nigeria. I enjoyed this non-linear structure, it has the feel of a long, intimate conversation, it definitely adds to the compelling nature of the narrative. The story of Jackie Kay’s upbringing and search for her biological parents is not told chronologically – the narrative moves back and forth across the decades, allowing different aspects of the author’s story to be revealed gradually. Not just a hugely compelling memoir, this is a book which raises questions of race, family and belonging. The book was chosen by my very small book group, and we meet to talk about it on Wednesday. Red Dust Road is the compelling autobiographical account of a woman’s search for her birth parents. ![]()
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