The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
Written by Akosua Busia
Narrated by Akosua Busia
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
Writing under the name Beento Blackbird, Solomon Wilberforce writes bestselling books that reconnect Africa's children around the world with their glorious heritage.
Solomon's own personal life, however, is curiously disconnected. He spends his winters on Cape Corcos Island with the midwife who brought him into the world when she was only nine years old. In the spring he travels to New York to be with his beautiful and ultra-modern literary agent. His summers are spent with an innocent woman-child in a native village in Ghana. But when his father dies, Solomon is forced to break this cyclical pattern to attend the funeral, and all of the neat compartments of his life begin to tumble in on one another.
Akosua Busia
Born in Ghana, educated in Europe, and now living in Los Angeles, Akosua Busia appeared as Nettie alongside Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple. The Seasons of Beento Blackbird is her first novel.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant story telling!! Absolutely in love with the authors way of writing. Rushing to find anything else She has authored
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author tackles many questions of life. From discovering self, learning to love, grippling with personal prejudices, spirituality, and responsibility to man kind. She does this with a clear voice, thoe ofter poetic and always beautiful. While this story is told from an Afrocentric perspective, it is a story for everyone. After reading over 800 books in the last eight years, I have not found many of this caliber. Also, the author's reading of the book delivers the story in vivit color.