Moving between past and present, the novel builds to a dramatic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive conclusion.
But as Miriam confronts her past-her losses and regrets-she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth: her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity.
Daughter, a penetrating novel by Essence editor asha bandele and chosen by Black Issues Book Review as Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality.Īt nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam.
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