Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story, (Paperback)

from tara35

This book, not quite 200 pages long, took me ages to read. A little bit about Bandlele - she married a convicted murderer who was incarcerated at the time after meeting him through a college program. Bandele wrote about this part of her life in her memoir The Prisoner's Wife which I have not read...

from dulcibelle

Subtitled "One single mother's story", that's exactly what this is. bandele writes poetry as well as prose, and it shows in this memoir. Maybe it's because our lives are so different - I'm a childless, old, married lady, as WASP as you can get, and bandele is a young, single, Black mother - but a...

from scofer

I struggled through the first half of this memoir. Going in, I had hoped, most of all, to gain an understanding of why the author made the choice to marry a prisoner. Unfortunately, the story with Rashid is never fully developed, leaving the reader (or me, anyway) unsympathetic about her plight. ...

from onyx95

This is a heartfelt accounting of one women, one black women's struggles to realize her position as a single mother with all the trials and tribulations that go along with that state of being. In the beginning, asha bandele reveals meeting and falling in love with a man in prison, while many peop...

from mcna217

"Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story" tells of the author 's struggles as both the wife of an incarcerated man and as a single parent. At the age of 23, asha bandele visited a prison (as was required for a college course) and met an inmate, Rashid. They soon fell in love, and beca...