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Adichie is an amazing writer, & I wish I had more novels from her to read. This one is tough—plenty of trigger warnings. Had to do a little research partway through about the Biafran war, so I could understand better. The story is centered around 3 characters who are connected. Sometimes it was hard to keep track of other characters. A powerful historical novel about the horrors of a war that most of us have never heard about. 5 ⭐️

My favorite teacher in high school introduced me to this book my senior year. It had such an impact on me.

#springskies #fallintitle

Heartbreaking, moving and incredibly written. This book is so worth a read 🌞 #pick #halfofayellowsun

Being gay is illegal in Nigeria. Arinze Ifeakandu‘s collection of tender stories shows the effect of enforced secrecy on the lives of gay men there. In vivid, emotional scenes that are like acts from longer plays, we get to know men of various ages and cultural backgrounds—Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa; Christian and Muslim. Audiobook performance by Mirron Willis is perfect. #LGBTQ

I am late to the party, just now having finished Akinze Ifeakandu‘s award-winning debut.

“…he‘d not expected Hausa to be, for this man, a language of tenderness, he‘d expected it to be a language for business, a language to be used and discarded and reused.”

Finally getting to this debut novel from 2018. It was fascinating to view the protagonist from the internal view of the spirits that occupy her body. I had read reviews where people found this bizarre and confronting. I guess my worldview has been widened by my other reading because it didnt seem so strange - very interesting and engaging. Have you read this @Reggie ?

“Is this how he sees her? As an exotic beauty? I console myself with the knowledge that even the most beautiful flowers wither and die.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

It's a love triangle of sorts. #ittakesallkinds #lovetriangle

‘People who know loss know this : there‘s nothing harder to let go of than an already-gone thing‘

At the end of the thirty-month war Biafra was a vast smoldering rubble. The head count at the end of the war was perhaps three million dead, which was approximately 20 percent of the entire population.

Chinua Achebe, There Was A Country

#memoir #Nigeria #war #history