Coastal communities, told with an ear for dialect.
Ifeoma Chukwu grew up between Bonny and Port Harcourt and writes almost exclusively about the coast — its towns, its dialects, and the things the water keeps or gives back.
Harvest of Quiet Years, her first memoir, was written during the same year she finished What the River Kept, which she has called 'the strangest writing year of my life, and the most honest.'