Red Dust Road Picador Collection — Jackie Kay

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 With an introduction by the First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon From 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 In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour she 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 Like the best memoirs this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair Red Dust Road is a fantastic probing and heart warming read Independent Tanıtım Bülteninden