“asha bandele has a poignant story to share in
Something Like Beautiful. It is the love that comes through that makes this such a compelling tale.”
—Nikki Giovanni
Award-winning journalist, and author of
The Prisoner’s Wife and
Daughter, and performance poet featured on HBO’S Def Poetry Jam, asha bandele once again writes from the heart in her lyrical and intimate memoir
Something Like Beautiful—a moving story of love, loss, motherhood, and survival. Sharing the story of her struggles as a single black mother in New York City and her tragically self-destructive near-breakdown, asha bears her soul in a book Rebecca Walker, author of
Baby Love, calls “courageous, profound, and achingly beautiful.”