The Amputated Memory: A Novel

A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible.

Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and ...