A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents

*PEOPLE Book of the Week  *KIRKUS REVIEWS Best Nonfiction Books of the Year  *"GOOD MORNING AMERICA" Holiday Gift Pick  *POETS & WRITERS New and Noteworthy Books  *BOOK RIOT 15 of the Best Nigerian BooksA poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and myths of family, race, and religion—from Nigeria to England to AmericaMary-Alice Daniel's family moved from West Africa to England when she was a very young girl, leaving behind the vivid culture of her native land in the Nigerian savanna. They arrived to a blanched, cold world of prim suburbs and unfamiliar customs. So began her family's series of travels across three continents in search of places of belonging.A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing ventures through the physical and mythical landscapes of Daniel's upbringing. Against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence, she reckons with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and a multiplicity of possible identities. Daniel lays bare the lives and legends of her paren