The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING'Thrilling and disturbing' Financial Times'Excellently uncanny' Daily Mail'You'll find it hard to tear yourself away' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of UsThe Lagos of these twelve sinister and beguiling stories is multi-faceted, peopled aby Pentecostal Christians and exasperated atheists; żeby tight-knit extended families and struggling single fathers.
Here are characters cursed by guilt, bound aby the ties of ancestors and community; or enchanted by the allure of mysticism and would-be prophets. There are gossips and party girls - and a schoolboy followed home by a group of tribal masquerades, cloaked in feathers and twinkling beads.
Yes, his mother has warned him not to bring strangers home, but he is sure she will understand... Exploring the dark borders between psychology and superstition, these feverishly imaginative stories of trauma, betrayal, terror and love lay bare the forces of myth, tradition, gender, sexuality and modernity in Nigerian society.
Powered by a deep empathy, and glinting with humour and insight, they announce a major new literary talent.INCLUDING THE STORY 'BREASTMILK', SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAINE PRIZE FOR AFRICAN WRITING 2024
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