EAN: 9781668000984

THINGS THEY LOST - OKWIRI ODUOR KARTONIERT (TB)

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture Alternately whimsical  sweet  and dark  this
astonishing debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother brim[s] with
uncompromisingly African magical realism (The New York Times). 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 sets out a rich and magical vision of girlhood as a time of complexity 
laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion (Vogue). Heartbreaking  elegant  and written
in giddily exuberant prose (Financial Times)  it's a story about connection  coming-of-age  and
the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing.

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