RUNNING HOME

ISBN 9781736467633 (Hardcover) 

ISBN 9781736467640 (Paperback)

Seamlessly navigating the balance between incongruous identities as a Brooklyn-born Nigerian, Stanford-educated Commodities Trader, and Olympic Track and Field athlete, Running Home draws readers into Idara Otu's world through the context of her fiercely competitive, conventional African upbringing, complete with PhD and Masters-degreed parents and siblings, stringent cultural parameters, and tongue-clicking disapproval at any outcome subpar to excellence. Cultivated with a kingly lifeblood, Idara's smooth ascent to Stanford and dreams of a lifetime of golden meritocracy came crashing, both on the track, in an ill-fated championship race that ended her collegiate racing career, followed by the crushing realizations that awaited her in the 'Old Boy' networks of Wall Street and the genteel Houston south.