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Aftershocks: A Memoir is a book by Brooklyn based writer Nadia Owusu, published by Simon & Schuster in January 2021, which has been widely commended by peak media reviewers and renown personalities including Barack Obama and Malala Yousafzai. The book is a deeply thoughtful self-memoir holistically covering intimate, political and historical levels related to the author's origins and itinerant upbringing in several African and European countries accompanied by her caring although globetrotting father from Ghana. Despite their intense nomadism, the father nurtured her affective and cultural bonding to their Asante ethnic roots in Central Africa, where they traveled every year to visit relatives and friends. Having been abandoned by her Armenian mother when she was 2 years old, Nadia orphaned from her father when she was 13, following which she battles over the years to summon a historically contextualized, confident self as a young adult to gain socially minded, high level education and employment in the US.