It was coming in and Aya Rivers, who lived on the second floor of 8 Manchester Place with her mother, Miriam, was trying to sit up under it. Even in this final decade of the century, with all its bruises and deep-set abrasions, there was light somehow, and this morning it was coming in early. Here had been a community born during the migrations of the 1930s and 1940s, organized by the push and power of the 1960s, rocked by the horse and recession of the 1970s, asphyxiated, cut, cast out, and cracked in the 1980s. Well kept and clean, it was a reminder of what this neighborhood, this street, had once looked like. The light coasted until it came to the corner where the small brick two-family house stood, stiff and alone.Įight Manchester Place. It was gliding down the two-block road, down the stripped-down street, down past where the old frame houses wore their paint like rags and did not concern themselves with frivolities like manicured front lawns or usable porches. It was a morning thick with winter and a surprising sun. Eight Manchester Place: Wednesday, 7:15 A.M. Taylor, Marc Lamont Hill, journalists Esther Armah and Kirsten West Savali, and Kadiatou Diallo. This version of the ebook contains an updated introduction by the author and a very special survival guide for today’s activists and advocates against police violence, including the founders and members of Black Lives Matter, and Michelle Alexander, Harry Belafonte, Susan L. Daughter is an unforgettable portrait of one extraordinary woman and her journey-from secrecy to openness, from the silence of isolation to the beauty of connection. With the lyrical economy of poetry, Asha Bandele tells a powerful story that boldly confronts timely and troubling issues. But as Miriam’s recollections of love and regret descend upon her, this woman who has spent nearly every day of her life in an emotional prison finds that her wounds slowly give way to healing and a tentative hopefulness. As Miriam desperately waits at Aya’s bedside, she falls back into memories of her own youth, when her life took a series of tragic turns as she struggled for independence and dealt with the end of her relationship with Aya’s father.
Her mother, Miriam, a rigid and guarded woman, rushes to the hospital. On a winter night in Brooklyn, Aya Rivers, a vibrant nineteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work-an emotionally shattering first novel that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.
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