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03707aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 A1D5E9E4C78111EC88DDE91452ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220429010010 007 tb 008 220422s2022 nyu ed 000 0beng d 020 $a 0063211114 020 $a 9780063211117 035 $a (OCoLC)1312051209 040 $a UAP $b eng $e rda $c UAP $d IOU $d SILO 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 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. 250 $a First Harper Large Print edition. 250 $a First large print edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper Large Print, $c [2022] 300 $a 321 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 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-strickenNigeria. 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 theirdreams 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 -- amedical 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. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230502011758.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220708011145.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220429010142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1D5E9E4C78111EC88DDE91452ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search