· Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday will destroy you. It won't be an explosion or any other ultraviolent thing. Instead, the novel will inflict a thousand tiny cuts on you, and your soul will Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. · Black Sunday, the debut novel of Tola Rotimi Abraham, tells the story of a Nigerian family fractured when the parents abandon their marriage and four children. The children, two girls and two boys, narrate the story in separate chapters, but the older twin girls tell most of it. The book thus becomes an account of two girls’ maturation.
Black Sunday: A Novel by Tola Rotimi Abraham. $ Hardcover - $ USD Paperback - $ USD. Order From. Find a local bookstore. Named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Year and called "simultaneously unique and universal," this fiercely original debut novel follows the fate of four siblings over the course of two decades. Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham. Catapult p $ Black Sunday wrenches open a plantain-yellow fortune cookie, and the fortune inside is one you maybe wish you hadn't paid for, one some. Black Sunday is a daring and edgy bltadwin.ru Rotimi Abraham has a distinct voice and the prose is sharp and cutting. She manages to create a layered story with characters that are as complex, rich and vibrant as the Yoruba culture and the city of Lagos, where they come from.
Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday will destroy you. It won't be an explosion or any other ultraviolent thing. Instead, the novel will inflict a thousand tiny cuts on you, and your soul will. BLACK SUNDAY. by Tola Rotimi Abraham ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 4, When things fall apart, four modern Nigerian siblings will need cunning to survive. In this piercing, supple debut, a Nigerian father is scammed into ruin, and his wife, wearing her "favorite perfume, Elizabeth Arden’s Red Door," soon flees to New York.
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