Overview
Region
Diaspora
Nigeria/UK
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Adah follows her husband to London only to find exploitation, racism, and domestic abuse. She writes a novel; he burns it. A fierce, semi-autobiographical account of immigrant life, motherhood, and the will to survive.
Literary Significance
Along with The Joys of Motherhood, establishes Emecheta as a foundational figure in Black British and African feminist fiction