REVIEW: Braided in My Hair by Tiffany Alexander

Braided In My Hair
Author: Tiffany Alexander · Alexander Vision (2007)
ISBN-10: 1-4196-5068-8
ISBN-13: 978-1419650680
Price: $18 Paperback / Fiction


Daisy Wray is smart, intuitive, and a handful for her grandmother to raise. Daisy was born in a tiny two-room Chicago apartment to teenage mother Laurel. Florence “Mama” Wray, a strict and religious widow, was angry and devastated by her daughter’s pregnancy. However, the thirty-five-year-old grandmother agreed to take the baby home to live with her in Ohio.

Although she excels academically early in school, Daisy has trouble fitting in and making friends. The separation from her mother also causes feelings of loneliness and abandonment. “Why doesn’t she ever come to see me?” she asks herself. As she grows older, Daisy struggles to understand life, her existence, and God, which eventually causes friction between her and her grandmother. After a few major events and the mending of some key relationships, Daisy experiences hopefulness and healing.

Braided In My Hair is a touching story about pain, love, rejection, forgiveness and redemption.

Tiffany Alexander is a former journalist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. To learn more about this author, please visit http://www.tiffanyalexander.com/

Published in WOW!, July 2008 Issue
Copyright 2008 Tameka Delaney Edwards

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