Grips of Grief
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What happens when just days before your thirteenth birthday, you become a mother? Not to a child, but to yourself. And what happens when you’re forced to navigate that journey without a manual or a guide?
In this raw and deeply personal memoir, Ayo Deforge peels back the unending layers of grief, exposing the heartbreak and enduring wounds that loss leaves. With unflinching honesty, she guides readers through the weight of unresolved sorrow, the challenges of adulthood without parental support, a decade-long battle with a body reluctant to give life, and an exploration of faith. It is a journey through self-discovery, spirituality, self-forgiveness, healing, and the resilience required to reconstruct a life fragmented by grief.
For anyone who has carried the burden of unfinished mourning, felt unmoored in adulthood, or faced the silent despair of infertility, this book stands as proof of the human spirit’s capacity to rediscover itself and reconnect with its source amidst life’s most challenging trials.
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About the Author
Ayo Deforge is a Nigerian writer who resides in the South of France. She was born in Lagos in 1982 and began writing at the age of thirteen, using poetry as a way to express personal grief. She studied French at Lagos State University and currently serves as President of the French-Speaking Nigerians Association.
Ayo has worked as a freelance poet for the Nigerian Daily Independent and NGEX.com. After relocating to the French Riviera in 2012, she worked in the yachting industry while continuing her writing pursuits. She made significant progress on TEARLESS in 2007 after attending Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Creative Writing Workshop in Lagos. She later completed a Faber Academy online writing course in 2022 to further refine her second novel, CAPTIVE (currently unpublished).
TEARLESS was published on December 1st, 2023. A powerful addition to contemporary African literary fiction, it was shortlisted for both the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Fiction and the Chinua Achebe Prize for Fiction in 2024.
Her writing has appeared in Litro Magazine, Brittle Paper, JAY Lit, Ayo Magazine, Kalahari Review, Love Grows Stronger in Death anthology, and Lucy Writers Platform, an online forum established by Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.
Ayo writes both fiction and nonfiction with a focus on grief—especially grief in children—and the emotional interiority of African women navigating identity and belonging.
| Author | Ayo Deforge |
|---|---|
| Cover | Paperback |
| Page Count | 231 pages |
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