num_pages: 118
description: Morayo Da Silva a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five she is in good health and makes the most of it enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche chatting to strangers and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story moving seamlessly between past and present we meet Dawud a charming Palestinian shopkeeper Sage a feisty homeless Grateful Dead devotee and Antonio the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. A subtle story about ageing friendship and loss this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.
language: English
title: Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
publisher: Cassava Republic Press