No time for whining, dwelling, talking about what's wrong, or trying to fix the brokenness inside. Miriam represents generations of women like me- so often raised to hide our emotions, ignore our wounds, forget our past. As a mother, a daughter, a Black woman in America, a survivor, a human being sometimes unsure which way is up. The heart of the story is about the silence between generations-the secrets mothers keep from their children in an effort to protect them. Daughter is a novel that appears to be about police brutality, but police brutality is only the landscape. Moving between past and present, the novel builds to a dramatic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive conclusion. But as Miriam confronts her past-her losses and regrets-she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. 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.Īt nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam.
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