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Aminatta Forna, whose shifting and gorgeously written memoir received worldwide interest, has effortlessly switched her hand to fiction in Ancestor Rocks a strong, sumptuous novel that beautifully reflects Africa’s past millennium and her present, and the heritage that her kids get together wherever they reside. Abie returns home from England to West Africa to go to her family after decades of civil conflict, and to recover the family village, Kholifa Properties, previously held by her grandmother. There to generally meet her are her aunts: Asana, Mariama, Serah, and Hawa, and thus begins her collecting of the history and the household through the stories of her aunts. Asana, missing mind and double wife’s child.