My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Islam But things quickly go awry

But things quickly go awry when Ivy wakes up to find Weston

and deep realities of black urban life

But now there are too many secrets

The journeys the three friends take to liberate themselves and others will not simply defy the status quo

Deniece Williams

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Islam But things quickly go awryMy Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monets ode to mothers, daughters, and sistersthe tiny gods who fight to change the world. Textured with the sights and sounds of growing up in East New York in the nineties, to school on the South Side of Chicago, all the way to the olive groves of Palestine, these stunning poems tackle racism, sexism, genocide, displacement, heartbreak, and grief, but also love, motherhood, spirituality, and Black joy.