| Daughter Contributor(s): Bandele, Asha (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743417984 ISBN-13: 9780743417983 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: In a stirring first novel, the gifted and lyrical author of the acclaimed memoir "The Prisoner's Wife" "gives us another penetrating look at the endurance of love under harsh circumstances" ("Essence"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | African American - Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005270439 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.05" W x 7.81" (0.68 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - New York - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Daughter, a penetrating novel by Essence editor asha bandele and chosen by Black Issues Book Review as Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality. 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. Moving between past and present, the novel builds to a dramatic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive conclusion. Daughter is a novel that appears to be about police brutality, but police brutality is only the landscape. The heart of the story is about the silence between generations--the secrets mothers keep from their children in an effort to protect them. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bandele, Asha: - Asha Bandele served as features editor and writer for Essence magazine, and is currently a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. She is the author of the memoir The Prisoner's Wife and a collection of poetry. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughter. |