"A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging." She wrote that the door, whatever its role in past centuries, is today "a place to return to, a way of being" for people, like her, struggling ...

Kwame Alexander's new novel aimed at teens, The Door of No Return, focuses on the history of slavery.It follows a boy growing up in Ghana in 1860, and it aims to help readers understand the ...

It's called "The Door Of No Return," and it's about a young boy named Kofi growing up in Ghana in the year 1860. Kwame told me this book was the hardest that he's ever written, and what helped ...