Description
ISBN: 9780857309013
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Crime & Mystery Club
Description:
A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everyday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection.
Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more.
'Steady-handed and gut-punching. I'm in awe of this mad collection, this necessary writer.' NoViolet Bulawayo, author of Glory
'Crackling with energy and alive to our whole kaleidoscope of feeling, these stories will rip you open and light up your insides.' Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes
'Uche Okonkwo's voice is absorbing. I was immersed in the familiar world of these tender, playfully haunting, darkly funny stories. Okonkwo is a writer to watch.' Chinelo Okparanta, author of Under the Udala Trees
'To read A Kind of Madness is to have an experience: of complex characters grappling with life's many troubles, of a robust culture, of history, of the battle between the domestic and the public, and all the big themes of life woven together. Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Okonkwo's mastery of the form is as rich as some of the short sto