There is pain in the Kentucky mountains. Some people's bodies throb with the ache of repetitive injuries. I am here, they yell to a cloudless sky. Look at me. I am hurting. I am in pain.
Setting much of the plot in Ghana Must Go—Taiye Selasi’s engaging first novel about two African immigrants and their children—in Boston was an clever choice: A hilly colony established by…
My dreams, for so long unrestrained by land, air, or even death—and frequently including scenes of me tumbling through the air on glossy black feathered wings or jumping into an…