The Burning Bush Women and Other Stories
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781900715584
Subjects: Short stories; Fiction - General; Fiction; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Description: In these sometimes strange, funny, tragic and truthful stories, Cherie Jones weaves paths through the joys and suffering of women's lives. The writing occupies an in-between space between the magical and the realistic, exploring the tensions between the African folk wisdom Nanan passes on from the ancestors to her grand-daughter, and the colonised dictums that the mother in 'The Bride' offers her daughter about how a respectable woman lives.