My Heart Will Cross This Ocean
Author: Diallo, Kadiatou
ISBN: 9780345456014
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Nov 2004
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child-a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou Diallo-was gunned down without cause on the streets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within.
ISBN: 9780345456014
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Nov 2004
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen. Twenty-three years later, that child-a gentle, innocent young man named Amadou Diallo-was gunned down without cause on the streets of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within.
