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Overview

When asha bandele fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. But soon after Nisa was born, asha’s dreams were shattered. Her husband, Rashid, was denied parole and told he’d be deported to his native Guyana once released. Suddenly a statistic—a black single mother in New York City—asha kept it together on the outside while falling apart on the inside. Despite having a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored, asha began drinking and smoking and stumbled into a relationship that opened new wounds—descending into depression when her ...

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Overview

When asha bandele fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. But soon after Nisa was born, asha’s dreams were shattered. Her husband, Rashid, was denied parole and told he’d be deported to his native Guyana once released. Suddenly a statistic—a black single mother in New York City—asha kept it together on the outside while falling apart on the inside. Despite having a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored, asha began drinking and smoking and stumbled into a relationship that opened new wounds—descending into depression when her life should have been filled with love and joy.

A lyrical, astonishingly honest memoir, Something Like Beautiful is not only asha’s story but also the story of thousands of women who struggle daily with little help and much against them.

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Booklist (starred review)
Praise for THE PRISONER’S WIFE: “[bandele’s] writing soars with emotion. And the reader’s emotions soar as well, not because of shared experience but because her highly polished and skillful writing makes one feel her pain and joy.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061710377
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/27/2009
  • Pages: 208
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

A former features editor for Essence magazine, asha bandele is the author of two collections of poems, the award-wining memoir The Prisoner’s Wife, and the novel Daughter. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.

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  • Posted March 20, 2009

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    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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  • Posted October 7, 2009

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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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 20, 2009

    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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    Posted January 25, 2010

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