The Awakened Woman
From an arranged marriage at eleven in rural Zimbabwe to a doctorate, written as a method rather than a miracle.
Tererai Trent was married at eleven in rural Zimbabwe and had three children before she was eighteen, having taught herself to read from her brother’s schoolbooks. She wrote her ambitions on a scrap of paper, buried it, and came back for it after earning a doctorate in the United States. The book is not simply that story retold; it is structured as a method, drawing on what she calls the sacred dream, and aimed at readers trying to name an ambition they were taught not to have.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Trent shows how she created that path for herself, with relentless drive and the guidance of her ancestors.
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