Her Voice: Hänen Ääensä a Hybrid Memoir

In Her Voice: Hänen Äänensä A Hybrid Memoir, Faith Adiele’s working-class Finnish immigrant grandmother makes a deathbed comment that inspires Adiele’s survival as a Black woman artist in America. A granddaughter’s innovative investigation into the legacies of trauma, class, politics, and silence on women’s creative lives.

FAITH ADIELE writes and speaks about race, culture and travel. She is author of Meeting Faith, a memoir about ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award and routinely appears on travel listicles. Her media credits include Sleep Stories (CALM app), two episodes of A World of Calm (HBOMax), and the documentary My Journey Home (PBS), about finding her family in Nigeria. Founder of the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color, she teaches at California College of the Arts and leads writing workshops around the world.