Red Dust Road

In this revelatory and redemptive book, with characteristic generosity and humour, Jackie Kay tells the most inspirational of stories: her own. 'I was adopted by warm-spirited Scottish communists. When people ask me if I've ever found my 'real' Mum and Dad, it is them I think of. A while ago, I tracked down my Nigerian birth father and discovered him to be a born-again Christian, who didn't want his current family to know anything about me. 'If people were to know about You', he said, 'they would lose their faith in God'. Heavens, I said. I hadn't realized I was that powerful. He had my hands, my father, my gestures. Years before, I traced my birth mother and discovered her to be a Mormon. She had my voice, my mother, my patterns. "Red Dust Road" is a book about belonging and beliefs, strangers and family, biology and destiny. What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up'. From Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, the much-anticipated "Red Dust Road" takes the reader on an intimate and unforgettable journey across continents and time.