In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays
tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four
successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return
of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor
receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one
of them is dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's
daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells the story of her mother's harrowing
fight to raise four children as a widowed immigrant in South
London. Drawing on tough-love parenting strategies, Obiajulu
teaches her sons and daughters to overcome the daily pressures of
poverty, crime and prejudice - and much more. With her relentless
support, the children exceed all expectations - becoming a CNN
anchor, an Oscar-nominated actor - Asher's older brother is
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Year A Slave) - a doctor and a thriving
entrepreneur. The generations-old Nigerian parenting techniques
that lead to the family's salvation were born in the village where
young Obiajulu and Arinze meet with their country on the brink of
war. Together, they emigrate to London in the 1970s to escape the
violence, but soon confront a different set of challenges in the
West. When grief threatens to engulf her fractured family after the
accident, Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land,
refuses to accept defeat. As her children veer down the wrong path,
she instills a family book club with Western literary classics,
testing their resolve and challenging their deeper understanding.
She plasters newspaper clippings of Black success stories on the
walls, all while running Shakespeare theatre lines with her son and
finishing homework into the early morning with Zain. When
distractions persist, she cuts the TV cord and installs a
residential pay phone. The story of a woman who survived genocide,
famine, poverty and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to
the streets of South London and eventually the drawing rooms of
Buckingham Palace,Where the Children Take Us is an unforgettable
portrait of strength, tenacity, love and perseverance embodied in
one towering woman.
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