{"product_id":"daughter-isbn-9780743417983","title":"Daughter","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughter, \u003c\/i\u003ea penetrating novel by \u003ci\u003eEssence \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Asha Bandele and chosen by \u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eas Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt nineteen, Aya is a promising Black college student from Brooklyn who is struggling through a difficult relationship with her emotionally distant mother, Miriam. One winter night, Aya is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity. Keeping vigil by her daughter's hospital bed, Miriam remembers her own youth: her battle for independence from her parents, her affair with Aya's father, and the challenges of raising her daughter. But as Miriam confronts her past—her losses and regrets—she begins to heal and discovers a tentative hopefulness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMoving between past and present, the novel builds to a dramatic, heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive conclusion. \u003ci\u003eDaughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that appears to be about police brutality, but police brutality is only the landscape. The heart of the story is about the silence between generations--the secrets mothers keep from their children in an effort to protect them.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48682832953573,"sku":"NP9780743417983","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_c7503e2f-4b0b-4294-8c7c-1c330dc28846.jpg?v=1775168737","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/daughter-isbn-9780743417983","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}