![]() And the kind of one constant was the fact that I could go to the library with my library card and check out books. I was born in Ghana, but then we lived in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama. My family moved around a lot when I was a child. I loved reading more than just about anything else in my life at that point. And it's something I found that even as I've grown distant from that, I can't completely disentangle who I am from this early period. And yet I think when you spend that much time in a place - and so it really was such a huge part of my life. I was raised in the church, as they say, but I haven't continued to attend, and have kind of lost a lot of that early grounding that I had as I grew older and started to feel kind of politically differently than some of the teachings that I learned when I was younger. You know, similarly to Gifty, I grew up Pentecostal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Reviews 'Homegoing' Is A Sprawling Epic, Brimming With Compassion ![]()
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