My Heart Will Cross This Ocean:
My Story, My Son
by Kadiatou Diallo, Craig Wolff
Book Description
Descended from West African kings and healers, raised in
the turbulence of Guinea in the 1960s, Kadiatou Diallo was married off
at the age of thirteen and bore her first child when she was sixteen.
Twenty-three years later, that childa gentle, innocent young man
named Amadou Diallowas gunned down without cause on the streets
of New York City. Now Kadi Diallo tells the astonishing, inspiring story
of her life, her loss, and the defiant strength she has always found within.
It was Kadi Diallos voice that captivated the public
when she came to America to defend her slain son, and it is that same
voicecandid, wise, and generousthat fills the pages of this
extraordinary book.
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