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Benson, Jendella.
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Immigrant families -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Nigerians -- England -- Fiction.
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Benson, Jendella.
Immigrant families -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Nigerians -- England -- Fiction.
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Hope
and
Glory
: a
novel
/ Jendella Benson.
by
Benson, Jendella.
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION BEN
Subjects
Immigrant families -- England -- London -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Nigerians -- England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780063080577 (hc)
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
388 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"
Glory
Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, is in jail and won't speak to her because she didn't come home for his trial. Her older sister, Faith, once a busy career woman, appears to have lost her independence and ambition, and is instead channeling her energies into holding together a perfect suburban family. Worst of all, their mother, Celeste, is headed toward a breakdown after the death of her husband and the shame of her son's incarceration. Rather than returning to America,
Glory
decides to stay and try to bring them all together again. It's a tall order given that
Glory
's life isn't exactly working out according to plan either. A chance reunion with a man she'd known in her teens -- the perceptive but elusive Julia -- gives her the courage to start questioning why her respectable but obsessively private Nigerian immigrant family is the way it is. But then
Glory
's questioning unearths a massive secret that shatters the family's fragile peace--and she risks losing everyone she deeply cares about in her pursuit of the truth and a reunited family"--Publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Women's fiction.
Black fiction.
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