Authors: Asha Bandele
ISBN-13: 9780061710391, ISBN-10: 0061710393
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A former features editor for Essence magazine, asha bandele is the author of two collections of poems, the award-wining memoir The Prisoners Wife, and the novel Daughter. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.
When asha bandele 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. But soon after Nisa was born, ashas dreams were shattered. Her husband, Rashid, was denied parole and told hed be deported to his native Guyana once released. Suddenly a statistica black single mother in New York Cityasha kept it together on the outside while falling apart on the inside. Despite having a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored, asha began drinking and smoking and stumbled into a relationship that opened new woundsdescending into depression when her life should have been filled with love and joy.
A lyrical, astonishingly honest memoir, Something Like Beautiful is not only ashas story but also the story of thousands of women who struggle daily with little help and much against them.
Praise for THE PRISONER’S WIFE: “[bandele’s] writing soars with emotion. And the reader’s emotions soar as well, not because of shared experience but because her highly polished and skillful writing makes one feel her pain and joy.”