Book
Things they lost : a novel / Okwiri Oduor.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982102579
- ISBN: 1982102578
- Physical Description: 358 pages ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "This [...] novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning. Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one."-- Provided by publisher. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Preteens > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Loneliness > Fiction. Photographers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Coming-of-age fiction. Magic realist fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. Fantasy fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.
