The Devil danced on the water by Aminatta Forna

A daughter pieces together the truth behind her father's execution by Sierra Leone's government on fabricated treason charges. Forna's father, Mohamed Sorie Forna, was a respected doctor and government finance minister executed after a politically motivated treason conviction, and this memoir is her years-long investigation into what actually happened to him and to the country he tried to serve honestly. Moving between her own fragmented childhood memories and forensic digging through official records and witness testimony, the book becomes as much a portrait of a nation's descent into authoritarian rule as it is a daughter's reckoning with grief. Francine Prose at O Magazine praised it for making the abstractions of coups and corruption land as something deeply personal.

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