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04682aam a2200709 i 4500 001 4EFE3BBCC13811EC86583E4C41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220421010011 008 220418s2022 nyu 000 0beng 010 $a 2021037878 020 $a 0063048841 020 $a 9780063048843 020 $a 0063048833 020 $a 9780063048836 035 $a (OCoLC)1311286350 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c FMG $d FMG $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20211108 100 1 $a Asher, Zain E. $q (Zain Ejiofor), $e author. 245 10 $a Where the children take us : $b how one family achieved the unimaginable / $c Zain E. Asher. 246 30 $a How one family achieved the unimaginable 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 214 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Living in Brixton and awaiting the return of her husband and young son from Nigeria, Obiajulu Ejiofor received shattering news. There had been a fatal car crash, and one of them was dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain Asher, tells the story of her family and her mother's deeply personal fight to protect her children from the daily pressures of poverty, crime, and racism in 1980s and '90s South London as a widowed emigrant. Young Arinze and Obiajulu meet as teens in war-stricken Nigeria. Together, they emigrate to London in the 1960s to escape civil war and make a better life for themselves and their family. While seeking to achieve as much as they could, Obiajulu and Arinze experience prejudice and racism that overshadows their dreams and makes it difficult for them to make connections in a white Western society. When grief threatens to engulf her fractured family, the academic futures of her mourning children are put in jeopardy, but Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land, refuses to accept defeat. She buys the Western literary classics and instills a nightly book club, testing her children on their literacy nightly and challenging their deeper understanding. When they gravitate toward distractions, she eliminates the television and substitutes the phone for a residential pay phone, instead running theatre lines with her son and finishing homework into the early morning with Zain. Drawing on Nigerian parenting strategies encompassing adaptability, language, and foresight, Obiajulu enables her children to succeed under any and all conditions-a drive firmly instilled in her sons and daughters, who grow up to become an international journalist, an Oscar-nominated actor -- Asher's older brother Chiwetel Ejiofor -- a medical doctor, and a thriving entrepreneur. The story of a woman who survived genocide, famine, poverty, and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to the streets of Brixton and eventually the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, Where the Children Take Us is an unforgettable portrait of strength, tenacity, love, and perseverance embodied in one towering woman"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Ejiofor, Obiajulu. 600 10 $a Ejiofor, Obiajulu $x Family. 650 0 $a Nigerians $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Single mothers $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women immigrants $z London $z London $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women, Black $z London $z London $v Biography. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Biography. 651 0 $a London (England) $x Social conditions. 941 $a 26 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716034335.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611015237.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119020415.0 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207014925.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033222.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310013419.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011100.0 952 $l UKPD911 $d 20221028011839.0 952 $l YMPD532 $d 20220906011222.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20220902012135.0 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20220830013615.0 952 $l XIPA157 $d 20220830011212.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20220824010638.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804025228.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220722010148.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220708011211.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220706023121.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013447.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20220630011814.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220630010300.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20220615010209.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20220604010048.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220602011146.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220601010202.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220517010206.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220421010106.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4EFE3BBCC13811EC86583E4C41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search