Missing Mama
Subtitle: my story of loss, sorrow and healing
By: by Amọké Kubat
Publisher: Respondability, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780615592541
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Family; African American women; Biography; Social life and customs; Noires américaines; Biographies; Mœurs et coutumes; Families
Description: "Missing Mama is a young girl's story of growing up Black in Southern California, living on both sides of the track, surrounded by mentors, matriarchs, movie stars and malcontents, but no mama. Missing Mama is also a story of enlightenment, excitement, and exploration of a young woman coming of age in a turbulent time"--Author's website, viewed June 14, 2013
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Her name is Ernestine; title: Emily (My mother's mother); title: Mildred (My father's mother); title: Aunt Ethel (My father's sister); title: Johnnie (First stepmother); title: Pearl (My father's brother's wife); title: Velma (Second stepmother); title: Verna (My father's girlfriend); title: Aunt Jeri (My best friend's mother); title: Iyalosha Songobunni (My spiritual mother); title: Hindsight : lessons learned from the good, the bad and the ugly.