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An award-winning author and journalist, asha bandele first attained recognition when she penned her 1999 debut book, The Prisoner’s Wife, a powerful, lyrical memoir about a young Black woman’s romance and marriage with a man who was serving a twenty-to-life sentence in prison. With the hope that they would live as a couple in the outside world, she became pregnant with a daughter. A former features editor for Essence Magazine, she returns with her latest memoir, Something Like Beautiful, the continuation of her love with Rashid and its ultimate loss, with another emotional disappointment and a serious bout of depression. She is also the author of two collections of poems and the novel, Daughter. She lives in Brooklyn with her daughter, Nisa ...more

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Average rating: 4.41 · 22,616 ratings · 2,883 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 1,311 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughter 4.07 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story 3.76 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems 4.28 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Subtle Art of Breathing by Asha Bandele, Tony Medina 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prisoner's Wife by asha bandele it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword) 4.47 avg rating — 19,642 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe by Miguel Algarín (Editor), Bob Holman (Editor), Cynthia Andrews (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele 4.46 avg rating — 139 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When They Call You a Terrorist by Blinkist, Patrisse Khan-Cullors (Original Author), Asha Bandele (Original Author) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I know it ain’t easy. But finally you got to let the hope of easy just go and think about what you need to do. How you can just be right. For yourself and most of all for that child.”
― Asha Bandele, Daughter

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“face the contradiction
that looks like u
that smells like u
that feels like u
and push out the violence
be unafraid to be a man
who confronts men about women
be unafraid to be a man
who confronts men
big mean-ass nasty men
be unafraid to be a man
who confronts
himself.

- Asha Bandele, 'In Response to a Brother's
Question About What He Should
Do When His Best Friend
Beats His Woman”
― Asha Bandele, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

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“It was that love was all we had. And we needed so much more. All couples do. We needed common passions and interests and goals.”
― Asha Bandele, The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir

tags: life-philosophy, love

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina -- Misty Copeland

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Dust Tracks on a Road -- Zora Neale Hurston

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The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir -- Asha Bandele

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Men We Reaped -- Jesmyn Ward

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