My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Islam Fans of Verity will be

Fans of Verity will be engrossed by this unpredictable novel of suspense as a new bride’s fairytale marriage becomes a prison of secrets

Isaac enacts a foolproof plan: snatch up a pair of badges for the epic comic convention

But now there are too many secrets

then her eyebrows

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Islam Fans of Verity will beMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.