When Aya is shot by a white policeman on her evening jog-her hooded sweatshirt similar to a robbery suspect’s-Miriam is left at her daughter’s bedside wondering whether she was all the mother she could have been.
A potent mix of familial strife and racial injustice in Brooklyn, by Essence editor, poet, and memoirist bandele ( The Prisoner’s Wife, 1999).Īya’s story begins things: how the 19-year-old is reshaping her life after a year in juvenile detention (a heavy penalty in a case where she was arguably the victim.) The beautiful girl is a straight- A student in college and keeps an early curfew to appease her mother Miriam, a tight-lipped woman who has showered Aya with rules instead of love.
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