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Onomé, Louisa.
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Nigerian-Canadians -- Fiction.
Divorced women -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Miracles -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
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Onomé, Louisa.
Nigerian-Canadians -- Fiction.
Divorced women -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Miracles -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
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Pride
and
joy
: a
novel
/ Louisa Onomé.
by
Onomé, Louisa.
Harper Avenue, 2024.
Call #:
FICTION ONO
Subjects
Nigerian-Canadians -- Fiction.
Divorced women -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Miracles -- Fiction.
Families, Black -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781443468787 (trade pbk.)
Description:
324 p. : genealogical table, 22 cm.
Summary:
"
Joy
Okafor is overwhelmed. The recently divorced life coach whose phone won’t stop ringing is also the dutiful Nigerian daughter who 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 try 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 has had a premonition: Mama Mary will rise again like Jesus Christ himself 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 and the host of AJAfrika TV to help spread the word that Mama Mary is coming back. But skeptical
Joy
is struggling to deal 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 humour and flawed, deeply relatable characters that leap off the page,
Pride
and
Joy
will draw in readers 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 her loss would truly mean for each of them."-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction
Black fiction
Canadian fiction
Holds:
4
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J. D. Shatford Memorial Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION ONO
Adult Trade Paperback Books
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION ONO
Adult Trade Paperback Books
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Jul 02, 2024
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