Aminatta forna author biography for books

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Aminatta forna author biography for books

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Financial Times. In this wide-ranging collection, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. Bookstores are filled with personal essay collections; this one, by roving both farther and deeper than most, stands above. Aminatta Forna Average rating: 3.

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