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Product Details
Scribner, May 2010
eBook, 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1439125597
ISBN-13: 9781439125595
Description
At nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth: her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. But as Miriam confronts her past -- her losses and regrets -- she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness.
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Browse Inside DaughterKimberly Elise, O, The Oprah Magazine
My oldest daughter and I...had the same reaction; we think it's the best book we've read in a long time....This story is compelling and powerful and meaningful and keeps you thinking.
Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and the Dew Breaker
A wonderful first novel about the very complex ties that bind mothers and daughters in pain, the inevitable sacrifices that redefine love, passion,
and commitment. asha bandele proves here that she can do it all: poetry, memoir, fiction. And much like Asha's other work, Daughter will move and transform you.
Essence
This lyrical writer gives us another penetrating look at the endurance of love under harsh circumstances.
The Washington Post
A provocative meditation...Bandele's imagery is spare and effective...the kind of storytelling that resurrects lost family history.
In These Times, February 17, 2009
...a recurring theme throughout the book. Such honesty can facilitate a broken heart, as is the case in asha bandele?s ?Woman Up.? bandele tells the story of how she fell in love with, and married, a man in prison, later giving birth to their ...
Washington Post, January 22, 2009
...name for herself with her memoir 'The Prisoner's Wife' (1999), which chronicled her jailhouse romance and marriage, Asha Bandele published poetry and fiction, worked as an editor at Essence magazine and raised her daughter, Nisa. Now Bandele ...
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