Amelia
Give me a book with some weird ass family dynamics and I’m happy.. Ms. Akinola knocked it out of the park with this one. She was able to capture the intricacies and nuances with being the child of an immigrant . The balance involved in trying to thrive and assimilate while also feeling grounded to the culture of origin.
Gbemisola (Sola), Olanipekun (Ola), Anjola and Karen are Nigerian-American siblings who are trying to survive their childhood and navigate adulthood with their issues, some inherited and some not. Akinola was able to touch on the specific trauma of being loved by Nigerian Christian parents, the chasm between the African American experience and the (insert African country here) American experience. She did it with humor, wit and a directness that was necessary. She touches on what blackness means in America, on parental bullying, on one’s exploration/understanding of sexuality.
TW- past child SA mentioned, physical abuse (by parent) mentioned.
Please read this book!
Give me a book with some weird ass family dynamics and I’m happy.. Ms. Akinola knocked it out of the park with this one. She was able to capture the intricacies and nuances with being the child of an immigrant . The balance involved in trying to thrive and assimilate while also feeling grounded to the culture of origin.
Gbemisola (Sola), Olanipekun (Ola), Anjola and Karen are Nigerian-American siblings who are trying to survive their childhood and navigate adulthood with their issues, some inherited and some not. Akinola was able to touch on the specific trauma of being loved by Nigerian Christian parents, the chasm between the African American experience and the (insert African country here) American experience. She did it with humor, wit and a directness that was necessary. She touches on what blackness means in America, on parental bullying, on one’s exploration/understanding of sexuality.
TW- past child SA mentioned, physical abuse (by parent) mentioned.
Please read this book!