A provocative and debate-inspiring book which explores the pressure, politics, philosophy and culture of motherhood in today’s society.Motherhood has changed. For several decades there has been tension between traditional ideas and modern values of mothering. For years the trend was away from the constraints which bound down our own mothers and towards liberating women. But in the 1980s and 1990s the momentum has shifted into sharp reverse.Mother of All Myths documents the present backlash,...
An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna’s intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood – of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her dissident father’s stand against tyranny.Mohamed Forna, a man of unimpeachable...
Aminatta Forna is one of our most important voices and an international literary powerhouse. The Window Seat is the first collection of her acclaimed and influential essays. She has written for such publications as the Guardian , Freeman’s , Granta , The Nation , and The New York Review of Books , among others. She is currently Director and Chair of Poetics at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. She has incredible connections in the literary and...
