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. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Nisa.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.
She is also the author of two collections of poems and the novel, Daughter. A former features editor for Essence Magazine, she returns with her latest memoir, Something Like Beautiful, the continuation of her love with Rashid and its ultimate loss, with another emotional disappointment and a serious bout of depression. With the hope that they would live as a couple in the outside world, she became pregnant with a daughter. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Nisa An award-winning author and journalist, asha bandele first attained recognition when she penned her 1999 debut book, The Prisoner’s Wife, a powerful, lyrical memoir about a young Black woman’s romance and marriage with a man who was serving a twenty-to-life sentence in prison. An award-winning author and journalist, asha bandele first attained recognition when she penned her 1999 debut book, The Prisoner’s Wife, a powerful, lyrical memoir about a young Black woman’s romance and marriage with a man who was serving a twenty-to-life sentence in prison.
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