What you need to know:
Mnimbo writes plainly about her own marriage and divorce and shares stories of other women with care and tenderness. It is not the failure of one woman; it is a pattern. This is important, especially in a place where divorce is something women are expected to survive in silence, if at all.
We raise girls to become wives before anything else. So that by a certain age, a woman who has not married has failed at the one task she was prepared for, and everyone is entitled to ask her why. And so she sometimes marries against her own judgement, because she is too tired of answering questions.
Then the marriage doesn't work, and she has a decision to make: save herself, or save the thing everyone was so happy she got into. For once, she chooses herself. How dare you leave the one thing that validates your worth as a woman? How dare you not fast and pray some more?
Mnimbo writes plainly about her own marriage and divorce and shares stories of other women with care and tenderness. It is not the failure of one woman; it is a pattern. This is important, especially in a place where divorce is something women are expected to survive in silence, if at all.
