Onome Louisa - Pride And Joy A Novel - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Perfect for fans of dark laugh - out - loud family dramas (Bust magazine) this is a heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back. Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced a life coach whose phone won t stop ringing and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her they find that she isn t sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone - gone Auntie Nancy declares that she had a premonition that Mama Mary will rise again like Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Desperate to believe that they re about to witness a miracle the family overhauls their birthday plans to welcome the Nigerian Canadian community effectively spreading the word that Mama Mary is coming back. But skeptical Joy is struggling with the loss of her mother and not allowing herself to mourn just yet while going through the motions of planning a funeral that her aunt refuses to allow. Filled with humor and flawed deeply relatable characters so rich in heritage and complexity that I can t believe these characters do not really exist (Jesse Q. Sutanto national bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties) Pride and Joy will draw you in as the Okafors prepare for a miracle while coming apart at the seams praying that they haven t actually lost Mama Mary for good and grappling with what losing her truly means for each of them.
Title: Pride And Joy A Novel
Author(s): Onome Louisa
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781668012819
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction