02208cam a2200409 i 4500 1227422730 TxGeo 20240404120000.0 240301s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023024748 9781668012819 hbk. 1668012812 hbk. (OCoLC)1398513908 TxGeo rda Onome, Louisa, author. Pride and joy : a novel / Louisa Onom. First Atria Books hardcover edition. New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2024. 324 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she has had a premonition that Mama Mary will rise again like Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Desperate to believe that they're about to witness a miracle, the family overhauls their birthday plans to welcome the Nigerian Canadian community, effectively spreading the word that Mama Mary is coming back. But skeptical Joy is struggling with the loss of her mother and not allowing herself to mourn just yet while going through the motions of planning a funeral that her aunt refuses to allow"-- Provided by publisher. 20240414. Nigerians Canada Fiction. Divorced women Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Aunts Fiction. Families Fiction. Redemptiion Fiction. Domestic fiction. Religious fiction. QS5