Book · 1979 · Fiction

The Joys of Motherhood

Name: The Joys of Motherhood
Author: Buchi Emecheta

George Braziller Inc. · 230 pages

★ 6.0 editorial score

Nnu Ego's value is measured in sons, and she spends herself raising them in colonial Lagos while her husband launders clothes for an English family. Emecheta counts every cost the title conceals.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Parents and children Motherhood Colonialism

Setting

Nigeria

Time

1979

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