Child of a lesser God -- Stranger in my Garden --The illusion of raiment -- Warress -- Bride -- My mother through a window, smiling -- A day of deliverance -- Luther -- The burning bush women -- Blind -- The undoing -- Future perfect -- The doll -- The neighbours -- The promised land -- Anonymous.
Summary:
In these sometimes strange, funny, tragic and truthful stories, Cherie Jones weaves paths through the joys and suffering of women's lives. The writing occupies an in-between space between the magical and the realistic, exploring the tensions between the African folk wisdom Nanan passes on from the ancestors to her grand-daughter, and the colonised dictums that the mother in 'The Bride' offers her daughter about how a respectable woman lives.
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