She began drinking and smoking and eventually stumbled into another relationship, one that opened new wounds. She had a great job at a high-profile magazine and a beautiful daughter whom she adored.īut inside, she was falling apart. Asha became a statistic: a single, black mother in New York City. Rashid was denied parole, and told he'd be deported to his native Guyana once released. But soon after Nisa was born, Asha's dreams were shattered. Rashid was a model prisoner, and expected to be paroled soon. When Asha Bandele, a young poet, fell in love with a prisoner serving a twenty-to-life sentence and became pregnant with his daughter, she had reason to hope they would live together as a family. From the author of The Prisoner's Wife, a poetic, passionate, and powerful memoir about the hard realities of single motherhood.
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