Where the Children Take Us : How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable EPUB

In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mothers strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.

Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receivesshattering news. Theresbeen a fatal car crash, and one of themis dead.

InWhere the Children Take Us, Obiajulus daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells the story of her mothers harrowingfighttoraisefour childrenas a widowed immigrantin South London.There is tragedy in this tale, but it is not a tragedy. Drawing on tough-love parenting strategies, Obiajulu teaches her sons and daughters to overcome thedaily pressures of poverty, crime and prejudiceand much more. With her relentless support, the childrenexceed all expectationsbecominga CNN anchor, an Oscar-nominated actorAshers older brother Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)a medical doctor, and a thriving entrepreneur.

The generations-old Nigerian parentingtechniquesthat lead to the family's salvationwereborn in the village whereyoungObiajulu andArinze meetwith their country on the brink of war.Together, they emigrate to London in the 1970s to escapethe violence,butsoonconfront adifferent set of challenges in the West.

When grief threatens to engulf her fractured familyafter the accident, Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land, refuses to accept defeat. As her children veer down the wrongpath, sheinstills afamilybook club with Western literary classics,testing theirresolveand challenging their deeper understanding. Desperate for inspiration, she plasters newspaper clippings of Black success stories on the walls and hunts for overachieving neighbors to serve as role models, all whilerunningShakespearetheatre lines with her son and finishing homework into the early morning with Zain. When distractions persist, she literally cuts the TV cord and installs a residential pay phone.

The story of a woman who survived genocide, famine, poverty, and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to the streets of South London and eventually the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace, Where the Children Take Usis an unforgettable portrait of strength, tenacity, love, and perseverance embodied in one towering woman.