GATHER ME: A MEMOIR IN PRAISE OF THE BOOKS THAT SAVED ME written and read by Glory Edim

Glory Edim writes and reads her memoir GATHER ME: A MEMOIR IN PRAISE OF THE BOOKS THAT SAVED ME with the enthusiasm that ignited Well-Read Black Girl, a community dedicated to Black women and literature. As she writes in her prologue: “Books have been my ladder, my stepping-stones, my therapist, my teacher, my medicine, my parents, my religion, my lover, my fool, my instructional manual for life.” In this memoir she pays homage to some of the books that have been most meaningful to her, candidly pairing these to the periods of her life in which they supported her and giving an intimate portrait of people important in her life. From her childhood, for example, Gary Paulsen’s HATCHET spoke to the survival intuitions she needed when her Nigerian-born parents divorced and her father left the country without warning. Books aided during her mother’s long mental mental illness, her college years at Howard, her father’s death, a breakup with her partner. She reaches into her future by hoping that her young son will be a reader and someday read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME. Not only just a meaningful memoir, this also kickstarts listeners on books they may want in their future.  You can find out more about this book and the audio in the purchase link below.