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With an ensemble cast of characters whose lives connect, and repel, in ways that open up questions of identity, of family, of duty, and of what success might mean. So vivid, it is a great skill to have populated a novel with some many “main” characters and have all of them live and breathe in authentic and rounded ways.
The setting of Lagos enriches the narrative, these queer lives rooted in their Nigerian context (even when they are at times lived far from that place) are very different from my own experiences but I am drawn into them, feeling their joy and their pain, without – I hope – being a tourist.
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