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Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography
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Just Released: 20th Anniversary Edition!
Distinguished author Marita Golden writes movingly about her life-first as a Black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be Black in America.
While studying at Columbia, she met Femi, an African man. They fell in love and she journeyed to Nigeria to become his wife. In Africa, plunged into a culture so very different from her own, but one she felt she should understand, Marita Golden learned about both her own new sprawling Nigerian family and Nigeria's large African-American community.
But Femi, once her strength, began to insist she fit herself into the strict mold of his society and assume the submissive role of a Nigerian wife.
In her new, strange surroundings Marita Golden discovered that home is not simply a destination, but rather something you must carry always inside you.
Praise for Migrations of the Heart:
"Migrations of the Heart is a book that all women will find compelling, and all men who love women will find disturbing, painful and instructive."
-Alice Walker, Author
"Marita Golden's book reads like a lyrical and well-balanced novel, but it is all the more difficult to put down because the story is true."
-Newsday
"Candid, intense, absorbing... scenes linger long in memory."
-Publishers Weekly
"The lessons she learned have meaning not just for Marita Golden but for readers as well, because she offers poignant reflections on woman's place in an oppressive society."
- Indianapolis Star
"Speaks of the secret sources of power and truth, from which we create... there is irony and joy."
-Ms. Magazine
"The book is exquisitely written."
-The Los Angeles Times
"A marvelous journey... powerful imagery... distinctly drawn characters come alive, events pulsate with energy."
-The Washington Post Book World
