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Publisher: Canongate
Author: Derek Owusu
ISBN: 9781838855642
Year: 2023
Format: Paperback
Fiction
Losing the Plot
by
Derek Owusu
Losing the Plot by
Derek Owusu
Reviews
"A love letter –sometimes dense, often moving– written by a son to his mother."
The Guardian
Summary
Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of her displacement are felt across generations.
Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don't.