The author of four novels as well as her terrific 2002 memoir, “The Devil That Danced on the Water,” Forna retains a lightness of touch and depth of insight in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Aminatta Forna will present “The Power of Storytelling” at the Monroe County Public Library on Nov. 15, 2025. Aminatta ...

In "Ulysses," Stephen Dedalus famously says that "history is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." There are few contemporary writers who bear better witness to history's nightmarishness - its ...

A continent and three decades away, Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty is still seeking answers on behalf of his younger self, the 10-year-old boy who pondered the meaning of the ...

The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series of Hope College will feature novelist Aminatta Forna on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. in the John and Dede Howard Recital Hall at the Jack H. Miller Center for ...

Aminatta Forna is an award-winning author of the novels The Hired Man, The Memory, and, most recently, Happiness. Two very different lives intersect in Aminatta Forna's latest novel Happiness. An ...

First, a caveat: "The Memory of Love," Aminatta Forna's elegantly rendered novel of loss and rehabilitation in the aftermath of Sierra Leone's long civil war, is far better than its title suggests.

Wildness is always with us, whether we know it or not, whether we want it or not. In Aminatta Forna's splendid new novel Happiness, the tension between wildness -- animal and human -- and control is a ...

Aminatta Forna's first book, "The Devil That Danced on the Water," examined her father's murder. In the 1970s he had been a political activist and Amnesty Prisoner of Conscience in Sierra Leone in ...