Something Like Beautiful · One Single Mother's Story

“asha bandele has a poignant story to share in *Something Like Beautiful.* It is the love that comes through that makes this such a compelling tale.”

—Nikki Giovanni

Award-winning journalist, and author of *The Prisoner’s Wife *and* **Daughter, *and performance poet featured on HBO’S Def Poetry Jam, asha bandele once again writes from the heart in her lyrical and intimate memoir *Something Like Beautiful*—a moving story of love, loss, motherhood, and survival. Sharing the story of her struggles as a single black mother in New York City and her tragically self-destructive near-breakdown, asha bears her soul in a book Rebecca Walker, author of *Baby Love,* calls “courageous, profound, and achingly beautiful.”