“A woman maps her grandmother's house room by disappearing room.”
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After her grandmother's death, Chiamaka inherits a house that is, room by room, being reclaimed by the family that never forgave her for leaving. A slow, interior novel about inheritance, memory, and the rooms we map only after we've lost the right to stay in them.
Funmilayo writes interiors — both the architectural kind and the emotional kind — better than anyone on our list. This book asks you to slow down, and it rewards you completely for doing it.
— Funke Adisa, Editorial Director
Quiet, interior novels about memory and inheritance.
View author page →The house had eleven rooms when her grandmother died, and Chiamaka knew this because she had counted them on the drive in, the way you count anything when you are afraid of what's waiting at the end of the road.
By the time the will was read, it had nine. Her uncles had a way of absorbing a room without ever discussing it.
The first chapter ends here.
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