When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now thirteen-ye..
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her ..
Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded
by school friends and family in Ibadan. There is Eniayo,
her adoring little sister—for whose sake their middle-class
parents fight stigmatising superstition—and a large extended
family of cousins and aunts who sometimes make Morayo’s
home the..
The Bishop’s Prodigal Daughter is a warm, engaging, and inspiring story about second chances at love, faith and with family.Eloviano ‘Elo’ Obrukhe is only returning to her home, the oil rich island of Pakurumo to be a maid of honour at her best friend’s wedding and nothing else. She is determined to..
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo and Tayari Jones.When seventeen-year-old Nani loses her older sister and then her father in quick succession, her world spins off its axis. Isolated and misunderstood by her..