Daughters Who Walk This Path, Yejide Kilanko
Daughters Who Walk This Path, Yejide Kilanko
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Daughters Who Walk This Path

Author: Yejide Kilanko

Narrator: Claudia Alick

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2013

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

An authentic, wrenching novel chronicling a young girl's coming of age in turbulent, bustling, contemporary Nigeria Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan. An adoring little sister, their traditional parents, and a host of aunties and cousins make Morayo's home their own, so there's nothing unusual about her charming but troubled cousin, Bros T, moving in with the family. At first Morayo and her sister are delighted, but in her innocence, nothing prepares Morayo for the shameful secret Bros T forces upon her. Thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her, Morayo must learn to protect herself and her sister from a legacy of silence shared by the women in her family. Only her Aunt Morenike provides Morayo with a safe home and a sense of female community that sustains her as she develops into a young woman in a bustling, politically charged, and often violent country. "Kilanko's courageous characters reveal how young women bear their coming-of-age, and then they learn to tell."-Kim Echlin, Giller Prize-nominated author

About Yejide Kilanko

Yejide Kilanko was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, the daughter of a university professor and his wife. She married an American computer programmer and immigrated to Laurel, Maryland. Kilanko is now a social worker in children’s mental health and lives in Canada. Daughters Who Walk This Path is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by duck on March 07, 2014

Discussion of rape follows. I really enjoyed the fact that this is a novel that is very heavily concerned with female characters and intense familial bonds between them. I was more ambivalent about the novel's portrayal of rape and response to it. On the one hand, the female characters are by and lar......more

Goodreads review by Oyinda on August 05, 2020

It's been a couple of days since I read this book (all in one go because it was that good), and I've not been able to stop thinking about it. It was a really powerful tale of girlhood, womanhood, relationships between mothers and daughters, and also of generational silence. I've had my eyes on this b......more

Goodreads review by Tumelo on September 22, 2023

To reduce Yejide Kilanko's Daughters Who Walk This Path to a rape narrative is to do both the author and their work s great injustice. In the time that I've been engulfed in this book I've unravelled the genealogy of three generations of women, each with it's own pressures and rewards, findings ways......more

Goodreads review by Elohor on January 02, 2020

I was so scared of reading Daughters Who Walk This Path. I thought to myself, "When you finally read it, what will you have to look forward to?" I was right. Still am. It's a great way to begin the year, but what am I to do with myself after now? This book was relatable in a way that made me highlight......more

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