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A review by booksbythecup
The Secret Women by Sheila Williams
Is anyone else in a reading mood that has you reaching for an author's back list title after reading their recently released?
I read THINGS PAST TELLING (historical) by Williams not long ago; it was an engrossing read with a character I don't think I can ever forget.
I decided to reach for this one because the author was familiar but I didn't bother to read the synopsis. Initially I thought OK, 3 women bond after yoga class. But this book was much more than I anticipated.
THE SECRET WOMEN really showcases so much about life as a Black Woman at different times and stages of life. But what spoke to me most is how we have the tendency to "get on" with life and not take the time to process our feelings in a healthy way. Is that the way of women in general?
Finding our tribe or people that will allow us to have and work through difficult times of life, even when we try to put them away and deal with them later, is what we all need. As daughters of women who have done the same thing, we often judge our mothers for brief moments in time. The times we can remember and color them as we've always known them...as our mothers.
The women in this book have all recently lost their mothers to death, their grief shared, but the mothers they remember, still teach them.
I read THINGS PAST TELLING (historical) by Williams not long ago; it was an engrossing read with a character I don't think I can ever forget.
I decided to reach for this one because the author was familiar but I didn't bother to read the synopsis. Initially I thought OK, 3 women bond after yoga class. But this book was much more than I anticipated.
THE SECRET WOMEN really showcases so much about life as a Black Woman at different times and stages of life. But what spoke to me most is how we have the tendency to "get on" with life and not take the time to process our feelings in a healthy way. Is that the way of women in general?
Finding our tribe or people that will allow us to have and work through difficult times of life, even when we try to put them away and deal with them later, is what we all need. As daughters of women who have done the same thing, we often judge our mothers for brief moments in time. The times we can remember and color them as we've always known them...as our mothers.
The women in this book have all recently lost their mothers to death, their grief shared, but the mothers they remember, still teach them.