Synopsis: In Things I Will Tell My Daughter: Uncensored Truths on Love, Money, and Womanhood, and through a blend of personal narrative, social history, and hard-eyed wisdom, Joan Thatiah delves into life lessons she’s lived and learned — the honest, uncensored things she’d tell her own daughter about love, money, and womanhood. A raw, deeply Kenyan take on growing into yourself.
What would you tell your daughter about love, money, and becoming a woman — if you were completely honest? That’s the question Joan Thatiah sets out to answer in her first published book, a collection of unflinching truths drawn not from theory, but from a life fully lived.
The book opens on a high note, with a candid and emotionally raw account of discovering she was pregnant as a teenager — a confidence that immediately signals this won’t be a book that asks for sympathy. It asks for honesty instead.
Structured across four parts — Womanhood, Your Heart, Your Money, and Motherhood — Thatiah blends personal narrative, social history, and hard-eyed wisdom to unpack the big lessons and the quiet, unglamorous ones too — the things young women rarely see coming until they’re living through them.
Her voice is direct, unsentimental, and deeply rooted in the everyday realities of Kenyan womanhood.
Before this book, Joan Thatiah couldn’t get a publisher to take a chance on her — so she self-published and sold her work on the street.
Five years and several books later, she’s become one of Kenya’s most widely read authors. Things I Will Tell My Daughter is where that journey began: a book for anyone, daughter or not, who wants the truth instead of the sugar-coated version.
Notable: Joan Thatiah’s first published book, after five years of self-publishing and street-vending her own titles before landing a publisher; she’s since become one of Kenya’s most popular authors. Structure: Divided into four parts — Womanhood, Your Heart, Your Money, and Motherhood
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- Title: Things I Will Tell My Daughter: Uncensored Truths on Love, Money and Womanhood
- Author: Joan Thatiah
- Publisher: Stori Zetu Books
- Publication Date: August 29, 2016
- ISBN-13: 9789966097620
- ISBN10: 9966097627
- Pages: 180
- Genre: Self-help / Motivation (Kenyan nonfiction/memoir-essay)
- Format: Paperback
- Condition: Brand New
- Availability: In Stock
- Price: KES850
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