I'm really excited to get into this book. So far I've read the first four chapters and I'm already enjoying it. Before I even began to read the book, I was excited just to know that it was based off of Women. Rarely find books that just talk about women. I've read about Abie, Asana, and Mariama. I noticed that in each of their stories they are mainly talking about their mothers. By just looking at the family tree their are alot of members of the family.With just reading the first few chapters, Pologamy plays a big part of the family. It is interesting because Asana's mother is the first of Eleven wives. This makes me wonder exactly how many wives one man has had in history based on pologamy, because eleven wives is alot. I enjoyed reading about Asana's relationship with her brother. Her feelings toward him were normal I feel because for example when your the only child you recieve all the attention, and when another sibling comes along the attention is no longer on you. So you may feel neglected and dislike the other sibling for those reasons. I was alittle shocked to read about him dying I wanted to see where their relationship would go.
I'm really looking forward to getting more into this book. I think their are going to be alot of interesting stories in the family. I want to learn more about women's survival in Africa during that time.
2 comments:
I hope you are still enjoying it as much. There is such a rich relationship between the stories and the history!
I liked the relationships and how simple they were yet full of love and affection for each other. The book gets better I promise, and the emphasis on women in Africa is even stronger.
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