Description
Kesha Ajose-Fisher's No God Like the Mother follows characters in transition, through tribulation and hope. Set around the world--the bustling streets of Lagos, the arid gardens beside the Red Sea, an apartment in Paris, and the rain-washed suburbs of the Pacific Northwest--this collection of nine stories is a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty.
- Reviews targeting Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, Shelf Awareness, and others
- Coverage targeting publications seeking to amplify BIPOC authors
- Bookseller outreach, including ABA Advance Access's new underrepresented authors platform, PNBA, and galley mailings to booksellers who have enjoyed other titles
- College text adoption outreach through a handwritten postcard campaign
- Pacific NW tour with a focus on bookstores, libraries, local and reading series
- Regional coverage targeting Portland-area media
- Other coverage targeting O Magazine, Debutiful, The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Fiction Writers Review, Lit Reactor, and more
- Individual stories from No God Like the Mother submitted to magazines and websites for possible publication
- Book club outreach
- Author interviews: radio, TV, print, and online venues
- NetGalley, Edelweiss, and Goodreads ARC giveaways
- Social media including blog appearances, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
- Publicity and promotion in conjunction with author's speaking engagements
About the Author
Kesha Ajose-Fisher was born in Chicago, raised in Lagos, Nigeria, and returned to the United States with her family in the early nineties. She won the 2020 Ken Kesey Prize through the Oregon Book Awards for her debut collection: No God Like the Mother. She is also an Oregon Literary Fellow and a relentless student of the human condition. Ajose-Fisher's work has appeared in collections such as The Alchemy, The Phoenix, The Buckman Journal, and was recently anthologized in Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin.
Reviews
"No God Like the Mother is the sort of story collection that comes along very rarely--honest, precise, and meticulous in its emotional and physical detail. These globe-spanning stories--so often set at the intersection of nurture and abandonment, of intimacy and great emptying distance--are each a pristine act of storytelling, an immersion. Kesha Ajose-Fisher is a brilliant new talent, and No God Like the Mother the beginning of an equally brilliant literary career."
-Omar El Akkad, author of American War
"Kesha Ajose Fisher is a talented new writer who debuts with this impressive short story collection that will touch your soul with stories that are both tender and heartbreaking."
-Heidi W. Durrow, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
"No God Like the Mother is the kind of book my soul craves--these stories are gorgeously rendered, poetic and sure handed, but more than Fisher's abundant talent, there lies on each page the thing that can never be invented or taught, and it is simply this: absolute heart. With a seer's eye, Fisher examines themes of motherhood from angles that feel in equal measure compelling, startling, and downright beautiful."
-Chelsea Bieker, author of Godshot
Awards
Winner of Oregon Book Award 2020 (United States) and Oregon Literary Fellowship 2021 (United States).
Book Information
ISBN 9781942436553
Author Kesha Ajose-Fisher
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint Forest Avenue Press
Publisher Forest Avenue Press
