Fey Ugokwe's Blog - Posts Tagged "spirituality"

**"Wifey" (Description): a mystical, lyrical and haunting, psychological thriller that careens along the unexpected twists and dark turns in the tenuous marriage between a 22-year-old, primarily Asian, Miami-born daughter of well-heeled, immigrant professors and a 25-year-old, orphaned African-American man from the hard scrabble of Los Angeles and their relationship's journey from L.A. to the suburbs of Dallas. "Wifey", a work of contemporary fiction/contemporary women's fiction--that also includes other diverse and multinational characters--highlights a variety of sociocultural issues, inclusive of domestic violence, differential treatment, spirituality, and sustainability, using the universalizing backdrop of food, and spotlights the smacking differentials within individual power, the hair-raising undertow of relationship secrets, and the prickling chill of unforeseen fates.**

"It was 7:17 a.m., and Rev. was...black wingtips and gold watch glinting in the everywhere sun. A heavy man breathing heavily, he waddled across the blacktop...[E]yes ever-alight and purposeful, chin out in a grace-filled jut--he looked like Sunday morning..."

**Description: a mystical, lyrical and haunting, psychological thriller that careens along the unexpected twists and dark turns in the tenuous marriage between a 22-year-old, primarily Asian, Miami-born daughter of well-heeled, immigrant professors and a 25-year-old, orphaned African-American man from the hard scrabble of Los Angeles and their relationship's journey from L.A. to the suburbs of Dallas. "Wifey", a work of contemporary fiction/contemporary women's fiction--that also includes other diverse and multinational characters--highlights a variety of sociocultural issues, inclusive of domestic violence, differential treatment, spirituality, and sustainability, using the universalizing backdrop of food, and spotlights the smacking differentials within individual power, the hair-raising undertow of relationship secrets, and the prickling chill of unforeseen fates.**

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"A powerfully written exploration of the rites of power." -Kirkus Reviews

Wedding red silk ribboning in saltwater wafts; gold thread edges winking, waving; then crisp Shiraz & a murky mystery rising, pooling 'round:

A sensory, lyrical & haunting, multinational tale of twists in a young, sticky marriage--from L.A. to Dallas--& raw power/fresh secrets/fate:

Inching in2 city blacktop on ballet flats,careening kinetic cornucopia of sight/scent/all sound. Looking 4 the bruisings--in the wrong place:

"Her legs were straight out, tiny tan toes unpainted, and she was all flounced in a pretty, a-line, magenta-on-navy floral dress. A new pair of coordinating, navy-colored high heels stood respectably and erect, like a mommy's once-a-month Sunday shoes, at her side. Upon seeing her, taking her in, Rodney exclaimed, "Hah!" It was all he could utter for a moment, amidst the madness and mad talkings whirling within...":

"Her spirit began whispering to her that sometimes you seem so small and the area all around you so big--like the walk to the confessional with a mind full of complex sins; the wake behind the nurse in the doctor's office, as you tread in to hear what you already believe to be a dark result; and that trudge of a woman down a passageway to a bedroom against her will. It all seemed at that instant, the very same. It was so big and looming, trapezoidal and shifting--wouldn't stay still, and was getting fuzzier with each footfall as she swaying, trod. It was surreal and blackening, and rotating off its axis, it was the longest, longest, homestead-unit walkway...":