Firdaus’ mother in Woman At Point Zero.
Emma in Madame Bovary
Baby Suggs in Beloved
#bookrecommendations #motherhoodstudies #womenliterature #writer
5 days agoreading_between_the_lines_
When you picked up Beloved, I thought you were going to talk about Sethe. Sethe's story took up more space in my reading. Thanks for shedding this light on Baby Sugga. I see others here recommending Roy's work..and I too loved both Mother Mary and Ammu from God of Small Things
11 days agothefemchick
i really love this!! I can’t wait to introduce Nkemfulu to everyone!!! From my new book marriage is not for happiness.
11 days agoaatish_sharma99
Ammu in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is such a high bar. Her defiance after enduring a bad marriage and coming back to her maternal home, and raising her two children. Since now we have the real life story of the person that Ammu is modelled on (Mother Mary Comes to Me) so reading The God of Small Things and then Mother Mary... makes for a powerful combo package to read.
11 days agolitjamespodcast
For me: Thula in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were. She’s enduring, radical and funny.
11 days agoemeldamd
Nnu Ego in The Joys of Motherhood. After struggling with infertility, she finally becomes a mother, only to spend her life raising children in poverty, sacrificing her happiness and enduring unimaginable hardship. In the end, she dies alone, deeply disappointed by the life she lived, questioning whether all her sacrifices were worth it. Her story is such a heartbreaking indictment of a society that teaches women to make motherhood the centre of their existence, only to leave them with so little in return.
11 days agoalvarosalandyy
🌺 So I recently read Efuru and what I took to heart from her (Efuru) was her generosity and firmness to the people around her who needed her, financially and structurally. She was also self-righteous but not petulant. Don't want to spoil Efuru's fertility journey but if you know you know and that was A journey.
11 days agoshesveryobsessedwithbooks
Ooohhhh I like this! These are a few that I really like: - Laura (Chris’ mother) in “Now and Then” by William Corlett. I think about her from time to time. Her husband dies and she starts to reevaluate her life and realizes she didn’t live at all really and hates the life she cultivated with her husband. I also think she realizes that she and her now dead husband raised two children who ended up as emotionally fucked up adults. - Both of the mothers in “And Then He Sang A Lullaby” add interesting dynamics to the story. One mother is dead, bc she died in childbirth, but she still looms over her son like a god (or dark cloud) and thus he lives his life trying to justify his existence/his mother’s sacrifice. The second mother is a fighter and activist TO THE BONE, which inevitably influences her son to want to fight injustice.
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