Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story

Lyrical, but I couldn't get into it

Subtitled "One single mother's story", that's exactly what this is. bandele writes poetry as well as prose, and it shows in this memoir. Maybe it's because our lives are so different - I'm a childless, old, married lady, as WASP as you can get, and bandele is a young, single, Black mother - but as beautifully as bandele writes, I had trouble connecting with her. Her story is interesting and very touching, it just didn't grab me. The best parts of the memoir are when she is talking about her daughter. bandele clearly adores the girl.

I can see where this book would give hope and encouragement to others in the same situation and where it would spark interesting discussions in book clubs and other reading groups, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.

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poetic

This is the first book of asha's i have read but it will not be the last. She has a beautiful, honest, poetic way of writing about a not-as-unique as you'd think story about loving someone who is incarcerated and the challenged it raises when raising children in that situation. Highly recommended.

Not what I expected

I could not put down the book The Prisoner's Wife and I honestly thought Something like Beautiful would give me the same feeling, which it did not. I was hoping to find out in more detail what happened to Rashid and his deportation. Nisa is a beautiful gift of their union. Without Rashid, she would not have had this chapter of her life to write about.

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