DAUGHTER IN EXILE

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching yet heartwarming story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US and the challenges she must overcome.Lola is twenty-one and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate she has a great job a nice apartment a vibrant social life and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother a high court judge in Ghana disapproves of her choice but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America.Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not she’ll grow in courage to forge a different life from one she’d imagined whether she’ll succeed in putting herself and family together again. Daughter in Exile is a hope-filled story about mother love resilience and unyielding strength.