Who Does She Think She Is?

This is a novel exploring a family’s expectations against the frenzied backdrop of a wedding. Aisha Branch is getting married, and if she has her way, the wedding will be the event of the millennium. At 26, she is still the baby girl, the indulged only child of Camille and the only grandchild of Geneva. As the wedding draws closer, the Branch family is turned upside-down - with a wedding dress costing $7000 and a white boy as fiance. But this turmoil is nothing compared to what happens when Aisha falls hard for another man…All the excitement stirs up old memories and feelings in the Branch women, and they reflect separately on their own lives and relationships. As the drama of Aisha’s love life unfolds, the three women tell their stories in their own voices in Little’s most expansive and moving novel yet. Stylish and smart, Who Does She Think She Is? tackles difficult questions about the nature of family relationships. With her signature dry wit and quietly resonant insight, Benilde Little explores one family’s expectations and anxieties against the frenzied backdrop of a wedding to produce a wise, funny and beautiful book about three generations of irrepressible women.