Willow weep for me : a Black woman's journey through depression : a memoir / Nana-Ama Danquah

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danquah, Nana-Ama, author.

Contributor:

Solomon, Andrew, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danquah, Nana-Ama--Mental health.

Danquah, Nana-Ama.

Depressed persons--United States--Biography.

Depressed persons.

African American women--Biography.

African American women.

Women.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

300 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

25th anniversary edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2023

Summary:

"When Nana-Ama Danquah, a twenty-two-year-old single mother, began to suffer from a variety of depressive symptoms after giving birth to her daughter, she thought she was going crazy. Determined to portray strength in a world that often undervalues Black women's lives, she shrouded her debilitating despair in silence and denial. But when she befriends other Black women who suffer with depression, she finds the support she needs to confront the traumatic childhood events that lie beneath her grief. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, as best-selling author Andrew Solomon writes in an illuminating foreword, Willow Weep for Me "remains a brave book . . . but at the time of its writing it was humblingly audacious." -- back cover of book

Notes:

"With a new foreword by Andrew Solomon and an afterword by the author"--cover

ISBN:

9781324050612

1324050616

OCLC:

1319073706

Publisher Number:

99994921185