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Allison's latest book, Searching for my Missing Father: An American Noir (Black Rose Writing, 2020), is about her lived experience of being connected to a missing person. Her memoir traces her efforts to discover what happened to her father during the twenty-six hours between his last conversation with a family member and the report that he was missing - in other words, to find the truth behind her father's still unresolved vanishing.Born in New York City, Allison is a memoirist, biographer, historian, and Africanist. She is also a traveler and explorer-Ghana, South Africa, Algeria, France, and Russia- and has spent more than twenty-five years in Britain. She is moreover, the daughter of a missing person.
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Mitchell Library, 37 Harrison St, New Haven, CT 06515-2815, United States,New Haven, Connecticut
