Publisher's Note "A cosmopolitan beauty journalist from London recounts her visit to a tiny African village where her biological mother had died giving birth to her, a journey that brought the author into a poignant realization of her impoverished but culturally rich heritage. 35,000 first printing."
Industry Reviews "[A] significant and moving book....[that] features a number of tartly entertaining cultural observations on how it feels to be a black person in England and a not-quite Eritrean in Eritrea..." (03/15/2009)