Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

Name: Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika
ISBN: 9781980079897

Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Narrator: Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Unabridged: 3 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/20/2021

Categories: Fiction, African American & Black Fiction, Women

Synopsis

Dr. Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she has a zest for life and makes the most of it through road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and reminiscing about characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance encounters to help keep her sanity. As Morayo recounts her story, moving seamlessly between past and present, we meet Dawud, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper, Sage, a feisty, homeless Grateful Dead devotee, and Antonio, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.

A subtle story about ageing, friendship and loss, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman

About Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a British-Nigerian-American writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the bestselling novel In Dependence and multiple shortlisted novel Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun, and has had work published in publications, including Granta, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and Transfuge, among others. Sarah serves as board chair for the women's writing residency, Hedgebrook; she was previously board director for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and has been a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize, California Book Awards, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and chair of judges for the Pan-African Etisalat Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba

Dr. Morayo Da Silva is not a survivor... she is an adventurer! 74 years old and living in one of the hip areas of San Francisco with her books, her books, her books and her old Porsche, 'Buttercup.' Marayo, having been so well travelled often thinks of the past, questions her external ageing vs how......more

Goodreads review by Fran

Retired English professor Morayo Da Silva, of Nigerian descent, lived in a rent-controlled, sub-divided house in San Francisco. Feisty and unconventional, she drove "Buttercup" her Porsche. Approaching her 75th birthday, she embraced her yearly tradition of buying new shoes and trying something dari......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz

My only complaint is how short this book is. This is an intelligent look into the life of a 75 year old woman whose lived a very full life. I cannot get enough of books written from the perspective of older women who are still living their very best lives! Honestly, too often we read books about old......more