Ancestor Stone by Aminatta Forna Obe
NGN11,400
*Author, the ancestors stone*
Aminatta Forna, OBE, is a Scottish and Sierra Leonean author who was born in 1964. She has written four novels: Happiness (2018), Ancestor Stones (2006), The Memory of Love (2010), The Hired Man (2013), and The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest. Her book The Memory of Love was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for “Best Book” in 2011.
Currently a professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University, Forna previously held the position of Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Massachusetts’ Williams College. She presently serves as the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice’s Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University.
*Ancestors stone*
When a cousin offers Abie her family’s plantation in the West African village of Rofathane in Sierra Leone, she leaves her husband, children, and career in London to reclaim the home she left behind long ago. With the help of her four aunts—Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah—Abie begins a journey to uncover the past of her family and her home country, buried among the neglected coffee plants.
From rivalries between local chiefs and religious leaders to arranged marriages, manipulative unions, traditional desires, and modern advancements, Abie’s aunts weave a tale of a nation’s descent into chaos—and their own individual struggles to claim their destiny.
Hailed by Marie Claire as “a fascinating evocation of the experience of African women, and all that has been gained—and lost—with the passing of old traditions,” Ancestor Stones is a powerful exploration of family, culture, heritage, and hope.
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