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Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot

Losing the Plot Paperback - 2025

by Owusu, Derek

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  • Title Losing the Plot
  • Author Owusu, Derek
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Canongate Books
  • Publication date 2025-05-20
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013415948
  • ISBN 9781838855642 / 1838855645
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Quantity available 6

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From the publisher

A vital and honest book exploring the pain of the immigrant experience and the turmoil it can carry across generations, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize

DEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE - FICTION 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE DIVERSE BOOK AWARDS 2023


'A highly enigmatic, affectionate and robustly written portrayal of a mother-son relationship . . . very relatable' Diana Evans

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of her displacement are felt across generations.

Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the ones we don't.

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  • Library Journal, 03/21/2025, Page 1

About the author

Derek Owusu is an award-winning writer and poet from North London. He has written for the BBC, ITV, Granta, Esquire, GQ and Tate Britain. In 2019, Owusu collated, edited and contributed to SAFE: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, an anthology exploring the experiences of Black men in Britain. His first novel, That Reminds Me, won the Desmond Elliott Prize for best debut novel published in the UK and Ireland. In 2023, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.

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