Nadia Owusu's 'Aftershocks'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 22, 2021

Nadia Owusu was raised around the globe, living with her Ghanaian father, a civil servant with the United Nations. Her Armenian American mother left the family when Owusu was two years old. But when Owusu's father dies, her stepmother reveals a bombshell secret that turns her world upside down. Owusu joins us to discuss her memoir titled, Aftershocks.



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