“A memoir about the years nothing happened, and why they mattered most.”
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Ifeoma Chukwu's first memoir turns away from the dramatic years of her life and toward the quiet ones — the long stretch between leaving home and becoming a writer, when nothing seemed to be happening at all. A tender, funny, unsentimental account of an ordinary decade.
Memoirs about quiet years are a hard sell and an even harder write. Ifeoma makes the case, page after page, that the quiet years were the real story all along.
— Funke Adisa, Editorial Director
Nobody writes a memoir about the years they spent commuting, paying rent, and waiting for something to happen. I understand why. I am asking you to read one anyway.
The drama, when it finally came, was almost a disappointment. The quiet years had already taught me everything.
The first chapter ends here.
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