Esinam Bediako, "Blood on the Brain" (Red Hen Press, 2024)

New Books in Literature · Oct 8, 2024 · 24m

Today I talked to Esinam Bediako about here novel Blood on the Brain (Red Hen Press, 2024).When Akosua, a 24-year-old grad student in New York, falls and bangs her head, she has too much drama in her life to pay attention to her headaches and exhaustion. She’s just broken up with Wisdom, her boyfriend, she learns that her long-estranged Ghanian father is in New York, and she’s worried that dropping so many graduate classes means that she’ll lose her scholarship and work-study job in the library (where she met Daniel, her new crush). As she grapples with her Ghanian-American identity, her…