num_pages: 39
description: The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a moving short story by the bestselling award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be FeministsWhen Zikora a DC lawyer from Nigeria tells her equally high-powered lover that she's pregnant he abandons her. But it's Zikora's demanding self-possessed mother in town for the birth who makes Zikora feel like a lonely little girl all over again. Shunned by the speed with which her ideal life fell apart Zikora turns to reflecting on her mother's painful past and struggle for dignity. Preparing for motherhood Zikora begins to see more clearly what her own mother wants for her for her new baby and for herself.2020 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing Inc all rights reserved.
language: English
title: Zikora
publisher: Amazon Original Stories