Into the Go-Slow

A young black woman visits Africa on a quest for peace, meaning, and love in “a beautiful allegory at the heart of a realist novel” (Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas).

In 1986 Detroit, twenty-one-year-old Angie is still mourning the death of her brilliant, radical sister, Ella, when she impulsively decides to pack up and go to the place where Ella tragically died four years before: Nigeria. There, Angie retraces her sister’s steps, all the while navigating the chaotic ...