The Flower Bearers

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'A beautiful and immensely powerful book about love, grief and finding a way to be in a forever altered world' J</b><b>ulia Samuel</b><br><br><b><i>'The Flower Bearers </i>goes to some dark places, but there is joy, too . . . simultaneously a love </b><b>story, a portrait of sisterhood and a visceral depiction of violence, loss and </b><b>emotional devastation' Guardian </b><br><br>On September 24, 2021, Rachel Eliza Griffiths married her husband, the novelist Salman Rushdie. On the same day, hundreds of miles away, her closest friend, Kamilah Aisha Moon, who was expected to speak at the wedding, died suddenly. Eleven months later, as Rachel Eliza was learning to exist without her, a brutal attack nearly killed her husband. As trauma compounded trauma, Rachel Eliza realized that to survive her heartbreak, she would need to mourn not only her friend, but the woman she had been on her wedding day.<br><br>And so Rachel Eliza chronicles her seventeen years of friendship with Aisha. From the moment they met in a college library, she knew she had found a soul sister. Their life together was filled with music: they danced to records in their apartments and skipped from one sticky jazz bar to another. Sitting side-by-side at poetry circles, reading Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, marching through Harlem protesting lost Black lives, Rachel Eliza drew inspiration and strength from her friend. Together they learnt to embrace themselves, as writers, artists, and Black women.<br><br>Rachel Eliza interweaves this love story with another, that of her relationship with Rushdie, of the challenges they have faced and the depth of their connection. Celebrating the ways that these two extraordinary people have transformed her life, she reflects on the beauty and pain that come with opening oneself fully to love.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399813952

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

221 x 145 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.