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Blood on the Brain
Synopsis
An impulsive, madcap, and newly concussed young woman comes of age as she navigates her Ghanaian American identity, her relationships, and the muddled landscape of history, memory, imagination, and delusion. Twenty-four-year-old Akosua is easily knocked off her feet.
When she falls and hits her head, she's too preoccupied with her latest dramas to fully absorb the shock.
In the span of three months, she has broken up with her boyfriend Wisdom, discovered that her deadbeat dad has moved back to the States from Ghana, and dropped so many classes that she believes she's the only history grad student in the history of grad students to be registered for just one partial-credit class.
Instead of facing her problems, Akosua seeks distraction in Daniel, a "good Ghanaian man." But as her head injury worsens, she questions whether she can continue to run away from her father any more than she can…
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