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Oduor, Okwiri.
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Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Preteens -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Loneliness -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
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Oduor, Okwiri.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Preteens -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Loneliness -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
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Things
they
lost
: a
novel
/ Okwiri Oduor.
by
Oduor, Okwiri.
Scribner, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION ODU
Subjects
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Preteens -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Loneliness -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982102579 (hc.)
9781982102586 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
358 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"This debut
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, "
Things
They
Lost
" is a
novel
that unfurls the dizzying dualities of love, at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing."--From publisher.
Genre:
Bildungsromans.
Magic realism (Literature)
Black fiction.
First
novel
.
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0
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Adult Black Fiction
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