The Window Seat Notes From A Life In Motion Forna Aminatta by Forna, Aminatta 9780802159861, 0802159869 instant download after payment.

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.