A stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author
of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both
literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world,
and the stories that we tell ourselves. Aminatta Forna is one of
our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the
Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best
Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new
and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about
displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and
encroach on the non-human world. Movement is a constant here. In
the title piece, "The Window Seat," she reveals the unexpected
enchantments of commercial air travel. In "Obama and the
Renaissance Generation," she documents how, despite the narrative
of Obama's exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a
generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom
and the United States for education and were expected to build
their home countries anew after colonialism. In "The Last Vet,"
time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh, the only veterinarian in Sierra
Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a
meditation on what a society's treatment of animals tells us about
its principles. In "Crossroads," she examines race in America from
an African perspective, and in "Power Walking" she describes what
it means to walk in the world in a Black woman's body and in "The
Watch" she explores the raptures of sleep and sleeplessness the
world over. Deeply meditative and written with a wry humor, The
Window Seat confirms that Forna is a vital voice in international
letters.
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