“A collection for everyone who has ever rehearsed an argument they never had.”
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Forty poems addressed to people who will never read them — an absent father, a city that's changed its name twice, a younger self who didn't know yet what she'd give up. Funmilayo's first poetry collection is as precise and devastating as her fiction.
We don't publish much poetry, which is exactly why we said yes to this. Funmilayo's lines do in six words what her novels take six pages to do, and just as well.
— Wale Ogundipe, Senior Editor
Quiet, interior novels about memory and inheritance.
View author page →I have given this speech to the bathroom mirror, to the inside of the car, to you, specifically to you, asleep, which is the only way you've ever really listened.
Here is what I would say if the lights were on and you were still the kind of man who stayed for the end of a sentence.
The first chapter ends here.
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