![]() ![]() ![]() Something Like Beautiful is the counterpoint bearing witness to the dissolution of that union and its physical and emotional aftermath.Īt its core, though, Something Like Beautiful is, like Rebecca Walker’s One Big Happy Family, an anthology exploring how non-conventional families work. The Prisoner’s Wife tells her seemingly improbable love story (bandele, an up-and-coming literary star, falls for and marries Rashid, a man serving a prison sentence of 20 years-to-life for murder). It is the feeling brimming beneath the prose that drives bandele’s writing. In both, bandele tells what feels like a raw, jagged story by wrapping a vast river of emotion tightly around her words. ![]() Asha bandele’s latest work, the memoir Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, reads as a dénouement or coda to her first work of prose published ten years earlier, The Prisoner’s Wife. ![]()
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