Aminatta Forna, Author . Atlantic Monthly $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-87113-865-1
Forna saw her father for the last time on July 30, 1974; she was 10 years old. In this harrowing memoir–cum–detective story, journalist Forna searches for the truth about her father's execution in Sierra Leone after his treason...
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Aminatta Forna, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (317p) ISBN 978-0-87113-944-3
Acclaimed memoirist Forna (The Devil That Danced on the Water
) glides into fiction with this sweeping portrayal of the lives of five Sierra Leonean women. Abie—a young woman born and raised in Sierra Leone, who now lives in London with her...
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Aminatta Forna, Grove, $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1965-0
Forma, recipient of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Ancestor Stones, returns to Africa's troubled conscience in this admirable if uneven outing. Adrian Lockheart is a well-meaning English psychologist who embarks on a temporary post at a Sierra...
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Aminatta Forna. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2191-2
In this moving novel from Forna (The Memory of Love), the scars left by the Croatian War of Independence underlie a deceptively simple account of a Croat developing a relationship with foreigners moving into his village. Exactly what Duro Kolak...
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Aminatta Forna. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-27556
This elegant novel from Forna (The Memory of Love) opens with a chance encounter: Ghanaian psychiatrist Attila Asare and American urban wildlife biologist Jean Turane collide while walking across London’s Waterloo Bridge. Normally dispatched to war...
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Aminatta Forna. Grove, $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5858-1
Novelist Forna (Happiness) explores notions of place, identity, and movement in this bracing collection. In vignettes and long-form essays, she describes traveling through Mali; England, where she went to school; Sierra Leone, where she spent much...
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