The Impatient by Djaïli Amadou Amal

I absolutely enjoyed how fast-paced this book was, and I loved the short chapters 😍. Djaili’s writing is sharp and unapologetic, and I applaud that👏.

If Tomorrow I Become A Woman made you scream, The Impatient will make you gnash your teeth. I couldn’t stop cussing at all the annoying characters while reading😡.

Who is a good woman? What makes one a good woman? Are you a good woman if you don’t bend and bend for society until you cannot recognize who you have become? Are you a good woman if you don’t give up all your dreams for your husband and children?

Told in alternating timelines, The Impatient tells the story of three women who refused to accept the status quo, who are not interested in patience and endurance anymore because they have seen that it didn’t do their mothers or the mothers before them any good.

In this book, we are introduced to Ramla, Hindou and Safira, and we get to see all the pains they had to bear.

I think about all the women for whom this story is their reality.
I think about how women are expected to bear a shame that’s not theirs to take.
I think about women who are told to endure and be patient when their husbands abuse them. How much can one take until they break?
I think about women who fight, conspire against their fellow women, use products that can damage their skin beyond repair and do so many despicable things because they want to keep a man. How can you keep someone who doesn’t want to be kept?

This book reminds you that you are not free until every woman is free. I can only hope that more women will release themselves from the shackles of patriarchy. I wish more women could understand that the enemy is not their fellow woman but the man who doesn’t understand that women are full human beings with the right to make decisions for themselves and are not just an extension of their parents.

I absolutely enjoyed how fast-paced this book was, and I loved the short chapters 😍. Djaili’s writing is sharp and unapologetic, and I applaud that👏.

If you have read and loved Tomorrow I Become A Woman, The Joys Of Motherhood and Ogadinma; then The Impatient is for you. Please take care of yourself if you decide to pick this up❤️.