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toyosi0's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
magsmybags's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
2treads's review
challenging
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
β Mothering should not be this difficult. The urge to leave should not be this strongβ but she wished to go outside where it was quiet, where it was calm. A mother ought not to abandon her child, she knew, but she was surviving without hers, wasnβt she? β excerpt from Nobody's Child
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These stories were so good, raw in depicting the pressures of motherhood, the pride and love, and sacrifice. Ajose-Fisher also makes space for exploring grief, sexuality, choice, and anger.
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What I appreciate the most about this collection is that the term Mother comes in all forms, expressions, and personalities. Ajose-Fisher gave them space to contain darkness and light, vulnerability and strength, to make decisions both selfish and sacrificial. These stories cover mothers in all their incarnations: those welcome and others shunned. Ajose-Fisher makes a home within these pages for every kind of mother, the ones who give their all, the ones who step up, and the ones who struggle to either commit or be present.
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In a society that is constantly telling women how, why, and when to be mothers, reading these stories was really refreshing, even when themes of loneliness, abandonment, and depression were at the forefront.
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"...βThe abandoned cannot prosper.ββ Mama
-excerpt from Nobody's God Like the Mother
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These stories were so good, raw in depicting the pressures of motherhood, the pride and love, and sacrifice. Ajose-Fisher also makes space for exploring grief, sexuality, choice, and anger.
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What I appreciate the most about this collection is that the term Mother comes in all forms, expressions, and personalities. Ajose-Fisher gave them space to contain darkness and light, vulnerability and strength, to make decisions both selfish and sacrificial. These stories cover mothers in all their incarnations: those welcome and others shunned. Ajose-Fisher makes a home within these pages for every kind of mother, the ones who give their all, the ones who step up, and the ones who struggle to either commit or be present.
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In a society that is constantly telling women how, why, and when to be mothers, reading these stories was really refreshing, even when themes of loneliness, abandonment, and depression were at the forefront.
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"...βThe abandoned cannot prosper.ββ Mama
-excerpt from Nobody's God Like the Mother
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Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief and Pregnancy
signediza's review
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
sara_m_martins's review
5.0
thanks to booktasters and the author for providing me with a copy in exchange for a honest review
I highly recommend this collection of short stories!
"a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty"
cw: death, kidnap (mention of), rape (of minor), genital mutilation, abortion.
The writing is superb, and the author has that incredible capacity of putting you, not only in the scene, but in the skin of the protagonist.
Fisher creates complicated, flawed characters, that you care deeply for. As the title indicates, all these stories center greatly around a mother figure, but the main character is not always a mother. Most of the main characters are Nigerian, either living in Nigeria or being immigrants in America. However, the locations of the stories are set around the world.
All the stories have some sort of hardship in them, with more or less open endings (most of them quite bittersweet), which is not for everyone, but i personally enjoy.
As each story is different and hard to talk about without giving it away, what ties all these together is that they're tales of difficult trials and hard, trying times for these characters
I highly recommend this collection of short stories!
"a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty"
cw: death, kidnap (mention of), rape (of minor), genital mutilation, abortion.
The writing is superb, and the author has that incredible capacity of putting you, not only in the scene, but in the skin of the protagonist.
Fisher creates complicated, flawed characters, that you care deeply for. As the title indicates, all these stories center greatly around a mother figure, but the main character is not always a mother. Most of the main characters are Nigerian, either living in Nigeria or being immigrants in America. However, the locations of the stories are set around the world.
All the stories have some sort of hardship in them, with more or less open endings (most of them quite bittersweet), which is not for everyone, but i personally enjoy.
As each story is different and hard to talk about without giving it away, what ties all these together is that they're tales of difficult trials and hard, trying times for these characters
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Death
cw: death, kidnap (mention of), rape (of minor), genital mutilation, abortion.
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