Pride and joy : a novel / Louisa Onomé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onomé, Louisa, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divorced women--Fiction.

Divorced women.

Families, Black--Fiction.

Families, Black.

Mothers--Death--Fiction.

Mothers.

Miracles--Fiction.

Miracles.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Canada--Fiction.

Canada.

Nigeria--Fiction.

Nigeria.

Genre:

Novels

Novels.

Physical Description:

324 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2024.

Summary:

"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 has 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781668012819

1668012812

9781668012826

1668012820

OCLC:

1398513908

Publisher Number:

99996275571