'A vital work for our times' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'Radical gorgeous ... a queer love song
honouring chosen family' BIG ISSUE 'Beautiful ... this is prose worth spending time with '
MARIE CLAIRE 'A gorgeously deeply humane book' NICOLE DENNIS-BENN 'A vivid stirring
revolution' YRSA DALEY-WARD 'The ink practically hovers off the page' KAVEH AKBAR What makes a
family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? Across Lagos a rolling cast of
unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms daring to push all other relationships
- with partners family and friends - to the brink in the process. As they form and break
unexpected connections they reveal how they know each other have loved each other and had
their hearts broken in that pursuit. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed they work to
establish themselves in the city's worlds of art music entertainment and creativity while
reckoning with desire fear death and God. Here we witness their collective and individual
attempts to grapple with the necessary fictions that they all carry for survival. This is a
shimmering defiant cross-generational portrait of what it means to be queer in contemporary
Nigeria. 'Both deeply earnest and unique' VULTURE 'Unabashedly queer complicated and
occasionally outright hopeful' NPR 'Osunde is brilliant at character giving the cast rich
knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation' TLS ' Necessary Fiction 's Nigerians
are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen willful sexy dynamic explosive' MARLON JAMES
'Osunde's writing shines ... It's not just beautiful - it's transformative' BASSEY IKPI
