My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet

My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter by Aja MonetPowerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity, displacement gentrification, racism, and sexism. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is Aja Monet's ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters the tiny gods who fight to change the world. Complemented by striking

The boy wizard Harry Potter has been casting a spell over young readers and their families ever since 1997

Her estranged older sister Esther moves between countries and jobs

" Gill Lewis"Glorious

spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before heading home in the early hours to her adoring boyfriend

'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE

Radiates power and clarity' Sunday Times

Brave vixens

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary

up-all-night reading' Erin Kelly

they are drawn together magnetically

rubber gloves

instinctive and full of excitement