This is the pinpoint on which the story rests: Kweku dies barefoot on a Sunday before sunrise, his slippers by the doorway to the bedroom like dogs. At the moment he is on the threshold between sunroom and garden considering whether to go back to get them. He won’t. It happens in a house in Ghana, to a gifted surgeon who is estranged from his ex-wife and his four grown-up children living far away in America. In three parts, the family’s past, present, and future […]