“A fishing town's last good season, narrated by the sea.”
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Before the harbour closed, before the young people left for the mainland, there was one last good season — and the sea, in its own patient voice, remembers all of it. A coastal elegy for a town that doesn't exist anymore, except in the telling.
Ifeoma writes the sea as a character with more interiority than most people manage to give their narrators. This is a quiet book that will not leave you alone.
— Funke Adisa, Editorial Director
I have kept towns before. I keep this one differently, because I was there for the part where it ended and most of them weren't.
They will tell you the harbour closed because of the new port at Onne. That is true the way a single wave is true — it is the right size, but it is not the whole story.
The first chapter ends here.
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