![]() Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. ![]() Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read' - Independent 'Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books You think adoption is a story which has an end. ![]() If you're looking at the word 'adoption' and thinking that you already know exactly how this is going to go, then think again. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, the journey that Jackie Kay undertakes in Red Dust Road is full of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. It keeps changing its ending.įrom the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay's journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. Red Dust Road is Kay's memoir about adoption, growing up mixed-race in 1960s Scotland, and connecting with her birth parents as an adult. ![]() ![]() But the point about it is that it has no end. You think adoption is a story which has an end. ![]()
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