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Anonymous
Posted January 18, 2012
Entrancing - Highly recommend
I read this for bookgroup, then bought several copies to give as gifts, I liked it so much. The stories were each individually fascinating, but the interweaving of the characters' lives was really clever.
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Wonderful book - pleasure to read
As many others have already commented, this book is wonderfully written and nicely brings together the stories of various women, some White some African, all in an African context to tell stories of love, loss, longing, and cultureal understanding. It's beautifully done and truly enjoyable to read.
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A beautiful, stirring melange of stories...
This book is a collection of stories intertwined together by people and places. Adjoa is a young Ghana woman, trying to make a better life for herself and her family. Janice is a single American woman who has been working in Africa most of her adult life. Comfort is a widowed Ghanian woman with a son and new grandbaby in Washington D.C., and daughter-in-law Linda has her own issues. Ophelia is a young childless wife hoping and trying for a baby.
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I loved this book. The characters and their different stages in their lives held my interest. This story followed the characters at different points in their lives over an 8-10 year period. Some of the characters were more likable than others, and I found that I liked different characters at different times, and was less fond of them at other times of their lives.
Much of this book really revolves around motherhood: desiring it, striving for it, achieving it or not. There is pain, the disillusionment that often comes with age, as you discover that life is not all milk and honey after all. There is friendship and love, and there is forgiveness.
A beautiful, stirring melange of stories, I would strongly recommend this one to everyone. -
All the stories are strong as the female stars makes for a powerful look at relationships whose heart is Africa
In "Monday Born", twins Adjoa and Kojo left Ghana as migrant workers in the Ivory Coast in order to save as much as they can so they could come home to open a hair salon. By "The Precious Brother Salon, Kojo wants to make money fast so he considers a robbery of Adjoa's American employer, health worker Janice. Starring in "Names" and "Waiting for Solomon" is Foreign Service wife Ophelia, whose marriage lacks passion. Comfort's husband Kwaku died six months ago as she flies from Accra to DC to see her son, his wife and their baby in "A Modern African Woman". "Calculations of Risk" focuses on Comfort's white daughter-in-law who struggles with race and sex. Adjoa, Janice and Comfort meet in "There Are No Accidents" as each understands the impact of children. These nine tales focus strongly on the convergence of different people in various African countries (and one entry in DC). All the stories are strong as the female stars makes for a powerful look at relationships whose heart is Africa.
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Posted August 15, 2012
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