Her circle of colleagues and friends diminished. Upon retirement, her books became her literary friends and she often collected several copies of the same tome.
After her divorce, she became a university professor. Approaching her 75th birthday, she embraced her yearly tradition of buying new shoes and trying something daring, a tattoo perhaps?Ī young Morayo married an ambassador and traveled the world. Feisty and unconventional, she drove "Buttercup" her Porsche. Retired English professor Morayo Da Silva, of Nigerian descent, lived in a rent-controlled, sub-divided house in San Francisco. Damn, I want to live in Ladipa Manyika's California. Whenever I read a book by a lesser known writer I ask myself if a famous writer wrote this what would people be saying? This is a masterclass in writing, in nuance, in characterisation and even reality building. Methinks the world needs to learn and read more about Dr Marayo. No doubt! Not a cliché or stereotype to be found, Doc Marayo sounded and felt real, and Hell yeah, an older women will and still can think about sex!. The inner thoughts and feeling of the main (elderly) black female protagonist are blooming superb. That's what I got from this book - everyone's lens matters. It felt like everyone, everybody counted, from the homeless through to Doc Marayo herself.
I really felt like I got sniff of Nigeria, Brazil, Guyana, Italy, America etc when thus-heritaged )or born) characters came into the story. The beauty of this novella is its deeply engaging look at a diverse group people in the first person with such real feeling and authenticity, as opposed to the 2nd or 3rd hand reporting that I feel comes across in a lot of Western and Eastern writing - that or learning about other cultures through the media, as opposed to living with / talking to them / getting to really know them. Marayo is and, and how she sees herself, and wants to be. This is pretty much a masterpiece, a clever understated look at ageing and how it impacts on who Dr. she is an adventurer! 74 years old and living in one of the hip areas of San Francisco with her books, her books, her books and her old Porsche, 'Buttercup.' Marayo, having been so well travelled often thinks of the past, questions her external ageing vs how she feels internally and dissects and analyses literature.
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