Pride and Joy av Louisa Onome

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<b><i>Black Cake</i> meets <i>Death at a Funeral</i> in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming backfrom an author with a ';razor-sharp, smart, and tender' (Nafiza Azad, author of <i>The Wild Ones</i>) voice.</b><BR><BR>Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own.<BR><BR>As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she has had a premonition that Mama Mary will rise again like Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday.<BR><BR>Desperate to believe that they're about to witness a miracle, the family o