![]() ![]() As Miriam desperately waits at Aya’s bedside, she falls back into memories of her own youth, when her life took a series of tragic turns as she struggled for independence and dealt with the end of her relationship with Aya’s father. Her mother, Miriam, a rigid and guarded woman, rushes to the hospital. ![]() On a winter night in Brooklyn, Aya Rivers, a vibrant nineteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work-an emotionally shattering first novel that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond. ![]()
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