Daughter In Exile

The acclaimed author of?The Teller of Secrets?returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian womans struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.

Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldnt be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana, disapproves of her choice, but nothing will stop Lola from boarding a plane for Armand and America.

That fateful flight is only the beginning of an extraordinary journey; she has traded her carefree existence in Senegal for the perilous position of an undocumented immigrant in 1990s America.

Lola encounters adversity that would crush a less-determined woman. Her fate hangs on whether or not shell grow in courage to forge a different life from one shed imagined, whether shell succeed in putting herself and family together again.?Daughter in Exile?is a hope-filled story about mother love, resilience, and unyielding strength.