Where the children take us / Zain Asher.
By: Asher, Zain.
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BookPublisher: London : 4th Estate, 2022Description: Hardback 23 cm.ISBN: 9780008409425 (hbk.) :; 0008409420 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Asher, Zain -- Family | Ejiofor, Obiajulu | Mothers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Mothers -- Nigeria -- Biography | Biography | Biography & non-fiction proseDDC classification: 920 ASH Summary: In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and her determination - grounded in the traditions of Nigerian parenting - to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. 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.
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| Adult non-fiction book | Birchwood Library Biography | 920 ASH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34143110655287 |
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and her determination - grounded in the traditions of Nigerian parenting - to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. 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.