For the characters vibrantly rendered here, life itself is a form of resistance and Osunde captures them all with a singular tenderness and vivacity. Thomas could see the streets as his Uncle Anjos spoke, people grappling mercilessly, butting heads like rams, like they had nothing to lose: women on the sidelines picking fights with each other, children following suit. I was initially surprised that it didn't really have much int he way of a conclusion, but that is kind of the point. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). At times he sounds like a friend telling a good story over a beer, at other times he’s a carnival barker.

They were only worried for him, because the family tree seemed to grow toward a warning: madness was wet soil and many people, once they'd stumbled on it, couldn't help hurtling to the end of a too-dark valley. Too feisty for the academic press but too thoughtful for the online outrage machine, these short, beautiful and provocative texts inspire the radical imagination and catalyze creative action.An exuberant tribute to the 'vagabonds' who live their lives in the margins, Osunde's freewheeling takedown of Nigerian capitalism takes readers on a twilight tour of the spirits and misfits of Lagos. As Anderson comes to realize, “The trail has a way of answering questions you most need answered, even if you are afraid to ask. I’m in awe of Osunde’s writing … I can’t wait for others to delve into the joyous, defiant world she has rendered for her debut novel, VAGABONDS! When he waved his handkerchief and let out a string of Bini prayers and incantations, the rain immediately ceased.

Jensen's collection of stories of life on the streets and the margins on 18th and 19th Century London does not add up to any grand narrative of the development of London, or British society. Steeped in magical realism and a narrative voice reminiscent of early Salman Rushdie, Eloghosa Osunde’s exuberant debut novel. I'm really interested in social history and found this book fascinating in shedding a light on the vagabonds of 19th century London.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. A small boy, too poor even to have a coat, stands bent double, perhaps from the cold, perhaps from hunger – probably from both. Contending with hunger, exhaustion and the unwelcome attentions of the men who are drawn to Mollys dark beauty, their life is at times almost unbearable. I persevered to give the book time to get into its swing, but was still floundering, so I decided to see what other readers have said about the book. He is a visual embodiment of the children lurking beneath the coat of the Ghost of Christmas Present in ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Winner of the 2021 Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of a Miles Morland Scholarship, she has been published in The Paris Review, Gulf Coast, Guernica, Catapult, and other venues. Most Nigerians remember this match, whether they were born at the time or not; know the story like they know God-with a fervent, fastidious faith.Lagos is a city for all…you share this place with flesh and not-flesh, and it’s just as much their city as it is yours. A book in which love overpowers taboo, and long-repressed truths about Nigerian identity hold the center. But even without their talking, Thomas heard them clearly through the parallels and proverbs they shared in letters; through the roundabouts in their speech. I looked at the high cracked ceilings and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost…I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then that strange red afternoon.