(Did they love each other? Did they think of her?) So much of her work involves teasing out what matters, and throughout this memoir she slips between past and present, between her troubled birth parents and her more secure, and much beloved adoptive parents: two Scottish Communist supporters who took free trips to Moscow and taught their children about equality, respect and the importance of standing up for yourself. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and.

The child of a white woman from Nairn and a Nigerian postgraduate student who met in Aberdeen in the early 1960s, Kay is too experienced and too intelligent a writer simply to give us a personal account of an adopted girl looking for her parents. Bibliographic information Title, Red Dust Road Author, Jackie Kay Edition, large print Publisher, Clipper Large Print, 2012 ISBN, 1471216462, 9781471216466. But the meeting did at least begin Kay's uncertain and emotional love affair with Africa, something that she needed in order to fill a gap in her life.

It was hardly the reunion she'd long been waiting for, and her disappointment at this short, wiry, seemingly demented old man (she had imagined a tall, dignified Sidney Poitier type) is honest, human and sad. When Jackie Kay first met her birth father in a hotel in Nigeria, he tried converting her into a born-again Christian and told her that she must be kept a secret from his family.

Red dust road author jackie