My Mother's Land: Tales and Tastes of Liberia
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Finally living her dream of teaching in Spain, Dena is on top of the world—until she receives a call that her mother is in the hospital. When her mom passes away, Dena is left with the helpless sorrow that comes when you’ve lost a piece of your heart. Time passes, but she feels stuck. She decides the only way she can truly move forward is to take a few steps back and return to her mother’s home town: Monrovia, Liberia.
As Dena sets out to uncover her mother’s pre-war life, in a post-war nation, equipped with little more than optimism and an invitation from an aunt she barely knows, she expects to meet a few relatives and maybe see the house her mother grew up in. What she finds is a country bursting with natural beauty and idiosyncrasies, feisty yet hospitable family members, dreary rainstorms and mouthwatering cuisine. Despite an unexpected language barrier in an English-speaking country, Dena begins to feel at home, finding that life there involves a little bribery, a lot of laughs... and a great deal of self-discovery.
Dena Olayinka Broderick
Dena Olayinka Broderick was born and raised in Southern California to a Liberian mother and Sierra Leonean father. After earning a bachelor's degree in communications and a master's in business, and working in the corporate world for a few years, she traveled to Spain to teach English. On her trip, she began blogging as a way to keep in touch with her friends and family back home-and so her life as a writer began. Aside from traveling and writing, all of Dena's other interests involve food: cooking, eating, watching shows about food, reading books on holistic nutrition and occasionally attempting to grow/ferment things in jars. Dena currently lives in Los Angeles, California. To contact her or read more about her travels visit her website at denabroderick.com.
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