December 26, 1965, Alabama, the fateful night that triggers an avalanche of events that turn newly engaged couple, Melvin and Bernadette, into fugitives. With a persistent F.B.I. agent on their trail, they travel to Ghana to seek the help of Melvin's old college friend, who happens to be the country's embattled president, Kwame Nkrumah. What was meant to be a fresh start quickly spirals into chaos. Steeped in the history and mythologies of West Africa, at the intersection of the civil rights movement, this novel merges political intrigue, magical encounters, and forbidden romance in an epic collision of love, morality, and power.
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