The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta Paperback Book 9780241578131

A scorching portrayal of a womans life the female feminist counterpart to Things Fall Apart Bernardine EvaristoGod when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself a full human being not anybodys appendage when will I be freeThere is no greater honour for a woman in an Ibo village than to have children especially sons Unable to conceive in her first marriage Nnu Ego is sent away to a new husband in the city of Lagos where she finally succeeds in becoming a mother But things are changing and a war that unfolds thousands of miles away threatens her familys fortunes and her entire way of life In a world where motherhood is everything what will be left for her at the end of it allSparkling intelligence and a certain kind of honest lived intimate insight into workingclass colonial Nigeria Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie