Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression

By (author): "Meri Nana-Ama Danquah"
Publish Date: February 1998
Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
ISBN0345432134
ISBN139780345432131
AsinWillow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
Original titleWillow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
This moving memoir of an African-American woman's lifelong fight to identify and overcome depression offers an inspirational story of healing and emergence. Wrapped within Danquah's engaging account of this universal affliction is rare and insightful testimony about what it means to be black, female, and battling depression in a society that often idealizes black women as strong, nurturing caregivers. A startlingly honest, elegantly rendered depiction of depression, Willow Weep for Me calls out to all women who suffer in silence with a life-affirming message of recovery. Meri Danquah rises from the pages, a true survivor, departing a world of darkness and reclaiming her life.