![]() Race and religion are key players in this book. Well, no up here at any rate,’ as Kay’s Aunt Edna explains to her some 44 years later. The child, christened (ironically?) Joy, had to be given up for adoption: ‘back in the sixties, people just didn’t have babies with black men. Instead, Elizabeth, her birth mother, a young nurse from an insular, mainly Catholic community in Nairn was packed off to Edinburgh to save the family’s face when she became pregnant by a Nigerian student at Aberdeen University called Jonathan. ![]() If Kay’s birth parents had married and lived together happily ever after, there would have been no great story. ![]() The title evokes somewhere far beyond Scottish shores and indeed the book travels long distances in place and time as she reveals the complex mosaic of her past. ![]() Red Dust Road is a memoir by the Scots-born writer Jackie Kay. ![]()
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