Each of their mothers came from a different family or village and shaped them to see the world differently. All these women grow up in the same compound with the same father, but each one had a very different experience. The Ancestor Stones are actually representations of generations of women who come before, but the stones seem to offer a metaphor for the unique qualities of the women in the story.
Ancestor Stones is perfect for an audible book because Aminatta Forna calls upon nearly all your "mental senses" in her descriptions: sight, sound, taste, feel, and smell. I want to lead a discussion about how the women in this book adjust to all the vicissitudes of their lives with grace, resilience, humor, and choosing their own paths. I have already recommended this book for my Book Group. I also love the way Adjoa Andoh brings out the poetry of Aminatta Forna's writing. I love them so much that I am completing a second "reading" now, something I never do. I love the characters in all their various stages of life. What did you love best about Ancestor Stones?
A wonderful achievement recalling The God of Small Things and The Joy Luck Club, it establishes Aminatta Forna as a gifted novelist. Set against the backdrop of a nation's descent into chaos, it is the take a family and four women's attempts to alter the course of their own destiny. And Serah, follower of a Western-made dream. Hawa, motherless child and manipulator of her own misfortune. Asana, lost twin and head wife's daughter. There to meet her are her aunts: Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah, and so begins her gathering of the family and the country's history through the tales of her aunts. Abie returns home from England to West Africa to visit her family after years of civil war, and to reclaim the family plantation, Kholifa Estates, formerly owned by her grandfather. Aminatta Forna, whose moving and gorgeously written memoir garnered international attention, has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction in Ancestor Stones, a powerful, sensuous novel that beautifully captures Africa's past century and her present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.
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