No God Like the Mother
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Kesha Ajose Fisher was born in Chicago and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. She now lives in Oregon with her family and can be found writing, reading, cooking for friends and family, traveling, raising her teenagers, cuddling with her puppy, Oscar, and fighting for social justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. In her free time, she squeezes in a hike through the beautiful green of the Pacific Northwest.
Kesha Ajose-Fisher is dedicated to amplifying the voices of some of the most vulnerable members of our society. She knows that many of life’s burdens fall heaviest on the shoulders of women, and she seeks to expose this reality in her writing. Her award winning collection of fictional short stories, No God Like the Mother, delves deep into the lives of women who are expected to keep the world turning, all while bearing the brunt of its hardships.
NO GOD LIKE THE MOTHER, won the Ken Kesey Award For Best Fiction in the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. It is a collection of nine short stories based around Child, Mother, and the World.
It is a tribute to those who have experienced the brutality of breathing through the agony of losing a child. It sheds light on the unknown and the not-knowing. It wraps warmth around the loneliness of being surrounded only by one’s thoughts. It is carrying the torch for someone who can no longer do so. It is the discovery that another suffers as you do. It is healing. It is a break from difficulty. It is the feeling of elation when another loves you too. It is the friends. It is the exhaustion that leaves one breath when the word Mama is heard, and knowing that still, she must go on. It is freedom even if hope is all that sits on the other side.