Waiting for Maria
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Product Details
Author:
Ifeoma Chinwuba
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
472
Publisher:
Iskanchi Press (October 30, 2024)
Imprint:
Iskanchi Press
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781957810133
ISBN-10:
1957810130
Weight:
20oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9" x 1.3"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_07142026_P10333083_onix30-20260714.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$23.00
Pub Discount:
65
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$17.71
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P-SS
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A
Case Pack:
20
Overview
Trapped behind prison walls, hope is the last thing they’re allowed—but the only thing they cling to.
Behind the crumbling walls of a colonialera fortress, more than five hundred women await execution—and one among them may hold the key to their survival. Freeman Fort was built to break dissent; today it cages mothers, daughters, and wives whose testimonies echo through its suffocating cells. Chief Superintendent Marcellina’s fall from authority to inmate exposes the brutal machinery of a justice system corroded by poverty, neglect, and graft.
As a newly hired executioner tightens the noose and longstalled sentences loom, the women forge fragile bonds—sharing confessions of domestic violence, wrongful conviction, and impossible choices. When whispers of presidential amnesty arrive, they must navigate a world where mercy is bartered and the price is everything.
Waiting For Maria is Nigerian literary fiction with the urgency of social justice fiction and the emotional depth of feminist literary fiction. Readers who love Reese Witherspoon book club picks and conversation-starting novels will find powerful themes for discussion: capital punishment, colonial legacy, and the resilience of women under impossible pressure.
Behind the crumbling walls of a colonialera fortress, more than five hundred women await execution—and one among them may hold the key to their survival. Freeman Fort was built to break dissent; today it cages mothers, daughters, and wives whose testimonies echo through its suffocating cells. Chief Superintendent Marcellina’s fall from authority to inmate exposes the brutal machinery of a justice system corroded by poverty, neglect, and graft.
As a newly hired executioner tightens the noose and longstalled sentences loom, the women forge fragile bonds—sharing confessions of domestic violence, wrongful conviction, and impossible choices. When whispers of presidential amnesty arrive, they must navigate a world where mercy is bartered and the price is everything.
Waiting For Maria is Nigerian literary fiction with the urgency of social justice fiction and the emotional depth of feminist literary fiction. Readers who love Reese Witherspoon book club picks and conversation-starting novels will find powerful themes for discussion: capital punishment, colonial legacy, and the resilience of women under impossible pressure.
