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Pride and joy : a novel

Onomé, Louisa, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
• Subject: Divorced women Fiction. / Families, Black Fiction. / Mothers Death Fiction. / Miracles Fiction. / Grief Fiction. / Femmes divorcées Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Familles noires Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Chagrin Romans, nouvelles, etc. / Nigerians Fiction. / Mothers Fiction. / Aunts Fiction. / Canada Fiction. / Nigeria Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781668012819, 1668012812, 9781668012826, 1668012820

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR9199.4.O66 P75 2024	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE