The House My Father Built by Adewale Maja-Pearce

Description

In this memoir, about a house his father built, Adewale Maja-Pearce captures the essence of the last decade of the 20th Century. He paints, in the minutest of detail, the sense of transition, of inevitable change, of frustration at its slow pace. The reader, while focusing on the small details, is coerced to lean back, and take in the big picture.