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  1. Nov 21, 2019 · That Reminds Me is the story of K, a boy born to Ghanaian parents in London. It consists of five chronological sections, each introduced by the narrator making an enigmatic declaration to...

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  2. Nov 14, 2019 · 699 reviews3,539 followers. June 24, 2020. Many debut novels take the form of coming-of-age tales, but Derek Owusu uses a beautifully unique style to tell a story that is wholly his own. “That Reminds Me” is a novel about K, a boy whose youth is spent between his mother and adoptive parents.

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  4. That Reminds Me is the debut novel of British author and podcaster Derek Owusu, published in 2019 by Merky books, a Penguin imprint launched by Stormzy and Penguin Random House UK. [1] A Bildungroman, the novel takes place in the British countryside and in London and traces the childhood, adolescence and young adulthood of its first-person ...

  5. Jun 26, 2023 · Entertainment. Derek Owusu’s compassionate writing buoys novel ‘That Reminds Me’. June 26, 2023 at 6:00 am. By. Cory Oldweiler. Star Tribune. Book review. Derek Owusu’s somber debut, “That...

  6. Jun 27, 2023 · That Reminds Me is the story of a young child growing into adulthood while negotiating the impossibly difficult circumstances of émigré life compounded by foster care, poverty, racism and varieties of cultural difference.

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  7. Jun 27, 2023 · That Reminds Me is a profoundly moving book about Black bodies and identity, and about God, sex, family, art, love, and madness. It is somehow both tender and unflinching, and the prose has both the lyricism of verse and the direct simplicity of overheard speech.

  8. Episodic, fragmented, full of poetry’s coiled power, That Reminds Me is the story of one young man remembering. It’s an entreaty to a lost culture, and a fight for love, for family, and for the respite of fixed identity.

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