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Writing a Violent Story with Love, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Memoir Nation

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The Carceral State

The author dedicated her first novel to her father, who died of cancer. Nana: "I really do believe like a seed was planted in me without even me really realizing it with my father's work and who he was" She says the class she took on political writing as a young writer is very misguided. The novelist also believes that art can be an outlet for social justice activism.

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