Something Like Beautiful is not only Asha's story, but the story of thousands of women who struggle daily with little help and muchĪgainst them, and who believe they have no right to acknowledge their pain. This lyrical, astonishingly honest memoir tells of her descent into depression when her life should have been filled with love and joy. She began drinking and smoking and eventually stumbled into another relationship, one that opened new wounds. She had a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored.īut inside, she was falling apart. Asha became a statistic: a single, black mother in New York City. Rashid was denied parole, and told he'd be deported to his native Guyana once released. But soon after Nisa was born, Asha's dreams were shattered. Rashid was a model prisoner, and expected to be paroled soon. When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. Taylor, Marc Lamont Hill, journalists Esther Armah and Kirsten West Savali, and Kadiatou Diallo.From the author of The Prisoner's Wife, a poetic, passionate, and powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood. This version of the ebook contains an updated introduction by the author and a very special survival guide for today’s activists and advocates against police violence, including the founders and members of Black Lives Matter, and Michelle Alexander, Harry Belafonte, Susan L. Daughter is an unforgettable portrait of one extraordinary woman and her journey-from secrecy to openness, from the silence of isolation to the beauty of connection. With the lyrical economy of poetry, Asha Bandele tells a powerful story that boldly confronts timely and troubling issues.
But as Miriam’s recollections of love and regret descend upon her, this woman who has spent nearly every day of her life in an emotional prison finds that her wounds slowly give way to healing and a tentative hopefulness. As Miriam desperately waits at Aya’s bedside, she falls back into memories of her own youth, when her life took a series of tragic turns as she struggled for independence and dealt with the end of her relationship with Aya’s father. Her mother, Miriam, a rigid and guarded woman, rushes to the hospital. On a winter night in Brooklyn, Aya Rivers, a vibrant nineteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work-an emotionally shattering first novel that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.
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