Status Updates From No God Like the Mother

Found in my local library and loving it so much

These stories are good, raw in depicting the pressures of motherhood, the pride and love, and sacrifice. Ajose-Fosher also makes space for exploring grief, sexuality, and anger.

Kneeling, she tugged on God’s ears, begged Him to watch over that mother and son, strangers who had passed through her life and left something behind.

When the sound returned to earth, it awakened a dance among the women and their voices hummed in unison. The matriarch stood to sing, and the women’s bodies shook as if fire took hold of their feet.

Such beautiful prose. There is so much packed into this slim collection.