The Echoes of My Name: A Novel

She has spent forty-two years building a life that asks nothing of the past.Then something arrives that the past has been holding for her all along.Amara Adéolá Ogundele is precise, accomplished, and almost entirely closed. She knows the shape of the wound she carries — most daughters of absent fathers do — and she has learned, expertly, to work around it.But some things cannot be worked around. Some things must be walked toward.What begins as a single, reluctant step pulls Amara across an ocean and into a world she was never told existed — where she will discover that silence is not the same as absence, that the people who loved her were never as far as she believed, and that her name has been carrying something she never consented to carry.The question The Echoes of My Name asks is not whether we can survive what was done to us. It is whether we can receive what was given to us all along — even when we never knew to reach for it.For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Tayari Jones, and Edwidge Danticat. Read more