Migrations of the Heart - Hardcover

MIGRATIONS OF THE HEART is Marita Golden's autobiography, an honest and fascinating story of one woman's journey from being a black activist in 1960's Washington DC, to a writing career in New York City, and then to becoming a wife and mother in Nigeria. Golden is especially vivid in chronicling the cultural and societal differences between being a black woman in the United States, and the role of African wife and mother. The description of her relationship with Femi, her Nigerian husband and the father of their son, is achingly recounted as their love shifts from promises and tenderness to anger and abuse. Alice Walker, author of THE COLOR PURPLE, writes of MIGRATIONS OF THE HEART:

"It is a book all women will find useful and compelling and all men who love women will find disturbing, painful, and instructive.

d author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in America.
While studying in America, she met Femi, an African man. They fell in love and she journeyed to Nigeria to become his wife. In Africa, plunged into a culture so very different from her own, but one she felt she should understand, Marita Golden learned about both her own new sprawling Nigerian family and Nigeria's large American community.
But Femi, once her strength, began to insist she fit herself into the strict mold of his society and assume the submissive role of a Nigerian wife.
In her new, strange surroundings, Marita Golden discovered that home is not simply a destination, but rather something you must carry always inside you.
"A marvelous journey . . . powerful imagery