When Nadia Osuwu moved to New York City at age 18, she had already lived in five countries outside the United States and her parents’ homelands of Ghana (her father’s) and Armenia (her mother’s family). She grew up disconnected, without a culture she called her own. In Aftershocks she shares her jarring story of being state-less and, ultimately, parent-less, as the survivor of trauma; she describes the heart and will it takes to pull though. Don’t miss hearing about her life and enthralling memoir looking at race identity and immigration, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the push and pull of belonging in the United States.