5/12/2023 0 Comments Red Dust Road by Jackie KayThese moments are offered as shared reminiscences, and are interspersed with other memories taken from different times, mainly of Kay tracing and eventually meeting the real people behind her mother's fairytales. Her mother tells her the little she knows about Jackie's birth parents and imagines what she does not know: they were madly in love, but he was already betrothed to another, they were heartbroken to give her away. From Abuja, Kay returns us to a 1960s Glaswegian childhood with her parents John and Helen, delightful people, communists who spend their summer holidays singing in the car, who cross Russia by train, and raise her surrounded by caring comrades.
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