![]() She adores hearing from readers, so don’t hesitate to say hello or sign up for her newsletter. She’s grateful to spend most days in her office matchmaking her characters while her favorite cat, Mittens (shhh…don’t tell the others), sleeps on the desk. After graduating from the University of Southern California Drama School, she had hopes of becoming an actress but was called instead to writing fiction. She’s proud to have grown up in a small town like the ones in her novels. She laughs a little too loudly, never knows what to make for dinner, looks ridiculous kickboxing in an attempt to combat her muffin top, and always complains about the rain even though she chose to live in Seattle. Tess loves lazy afternoons watching football, hanging out on the back patio with Best Husband Ever, reading in bed, binge-watching television series, red wine, strong coffee, and walks on crisp autumn days. They’re also smart, but a mother shouldn’t brag. Daughters, better known as Princess One and Two, are teenagers who make their mama proud because they’re kind. Her Bonus Sons are young adults with pretty hair and big brains like their dad. Best Husband Ever is seventeen months younger, which qualifies Tess as a Cougar, a title she wears proudly. She is married to her prince, Best Husband Ever, and is the mother of their blended family of four kids and five cats. I recommend giving this book a read because you won’t regret it! It really is as good as the description above…maybe even better! □ Come Tomorrow is such a great read any time of the year, but especially now during the holidays. I could not put this book down, and then when I did turn the final page, I wanted to pick up book 2. The characters were wonderfully written and very well developed, while the story truly does engulf every part of you while you are reading. Can a Christmas miracle allow a true love’s wish to come true? Find out when you get this novel.įirst of all, let me say there is a reason this book has over a hundred reviews and upholds its five-star status on Amazon! This book is such a great read. However, before either of them can be truly happy, Wesley needs to come to terms with secrets within his family-secrets that could tear the two apart forever. Kanika Batra (2007) ‘“Daughters who Know the Languages of Power”: Community, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Development in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It to Women’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 9.Wesley Ford comes back to town as a wealthy heir, also never forgetting Luci. Eldred Durosimi Jones (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press), pp. Olu Obafemi (1994) ‘Towards Feminist Aesthetics in Nigerian Drama: The Plays of Tess Onwueme’, Critical Theory and African Literature Today, ed. Ajayi (2002) ‘Tess Onwueme: Who Can Silence Her Drums?’, African Theatre Women, eds Martin Banham, James Gibbs, and Femi Osofisan (Oxford: James Currey), pp. William Over (2010) ‘Redefining Political Drama: Onwueme and Nigerian Society’, Contemporary Justice Review 13.2, 173–89, 173. Tess Onwueme (2005) No Vacancy (Trenton, NJ: African World Press), p. Stella Dia Oyedepo (1997) Doom of the Dimes (Ibadan, Nigeria: Caltop Publications), p. Ajayi (1998) Yoruba Dance: The Semiotics of Movement and Body Attitude in a Nigerian Culture (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press), p. 26–7.Īkinbowale Akintola (1999) Yoruba Ethics and Metaphysics: Being Basic Philosophy Underlying the Ifá System of Thought of the Yoruba (Ibadan: Valour Ventures), p. 5.Ĭhristoph Staewen (1996) Ifá, African Gods Speak: The Oracle of the Yoruba in Nigeria (Hamburg: Lit Verlag), pp. Yoruba Popular Life in Theater (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. Karin Barber (2003) The Generation of Plays. Karin Barber and Bayo Ogundijo (1994) Yorùbá Popular Theatre: Three Plays by the Oyin Adejobi Company (New York: African Studies Association Press), p. Uchendu (1965) The Igbo of Southeast Nigeria (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston), p. 6.2, 81–8, 84.įemi Abodunrin, Olu Obafemi, and Wole Ogundele (2001) Character Is Beauty: Redefining Yoruba Culture and Identity Iwalewa-Haus, 1981–1986 (Trenton, NJ: African World Press), pp. Oyeshile (2003) ‘Traditional Yoruba Social-Ethical Values and Governance in Modern Africa’, Philosophia Africana. 25.īarry Hallen (2000) The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Discourse about Values in Yoruba Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), p. St Marie Pauline Eboh (2001) Dialogue, Democracy and Morality: President Obasanjo’s Moral Foundations for Our Polity and Other Nigerian Ethical Policies Revisited (Imo State, Nigeria: Springfield Publishers), p.
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