Bad Love by Maame Blue
A young woman living in London, Ekuah loves deeply and loves hard, yet with each romantic encounter she is left feeling increasingly unmoored and adrift. She struggles in her love for Dee Emeka, a gifted musician, who is both passionate and distant in the way he loves her back. Confirming her worst fears about the unstable foundation of their relationship, he suddenly disappears from her life. Heartbroken, she is left to pick up the pieces, while searching for new validations and preoccupations from others. But when, against a backdrop of enigmatic, poetic, nights in London, Venice, Accra and Paris, she finds an unexpected new love in the form of Jay Stanley, Ekuah re-focuses on her journey to meaningful love. She is determined to feel deeply again, but can she handle the vulnerability and forgiveness that comes with falling in love?
Bad Love has a somewhat misleading titleThough it is about how we hurt and are hurt in love, it is ultimately about the resilience of love across space and time. -- Jane Link * https://www.bigblackbooks.org/bad-love-maame-blue/ *
Bad Love reflects the complexities of humanity rather than an idealist's view on humanity. By the end, no one is a hero or villain. The reader takes something of a journey too, one that inspires us to be more open. * Rewrite London *
Bad Love reflects the complexities of humanity rather than an idealist's view on humanity. By the end, no one is a hero or villain. The reader takes something of a journey too, one that inspires us to be more open. * Rewrite London *
Maame Blue is a Ghanaian Londoner, writer. As well as co-hosting Headscarves and Carry-ons-a podcast about black girls living abroad-she regularly runs social media campaigns for www.bmeprpros.co.uk and blogs at www.maamebluewrites.com. In 2018 she won the Africa Writes x AFREADA flash fiction competition for her story Black Sky. She has since been published in AFREADA, Afribuku, and Memoir Magazine; with stories forthcoming in Storm Cellar Quarterly and Litro Magazine. She is also the winner of the 2021 Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781913090180 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913090183 |
| Title | Bad Love |
| Author | Maame Blue |
| Series | Twenty In 2020 |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Betty Trask Award 2021 (UK), Long-listed for The Booker Prize 2020 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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