House Woman

''Unique, bold and unsettling'' Aiwanose Odafen ''Perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson'' Amy Gentry One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her - about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents'' kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they''ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife. In the Texas heat, patience runs on short supply and the atmosphere in the house becomes increasingly strained, increasingly violent. Desperation makes people do strange things... Unpredictable and unsettling, HOUSE WOMAN is a delicious thriller you will never be able to forget. ''A jaw-dropping debut of intimate horror perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Daisy Johnson'' Amy Gentry, author of BAD HABITS ''A modern successor to Gaslight : disorienting and disturbing'' Kirkus Review

About the author

Adorah Nworah is an Igbo writer from South-East Nigeria. Her stories have been published in AFREADA and adda magazine. Her short stories, “The Bride” and “Broken English” made the shortlist for the 2019 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the longlist for the 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize respectively. She lives in Philadelphia, where she practices real estate finance law and is cat mom to her handsome Napoleon cat.

Product details

• Authors: Adorah Nworah
• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9780008502751
• ISBN: 978-0-00-850275-1
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 199 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Houston, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Religious, Lagos, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Southern, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Horror & ghost stories, Psychological thriller, Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Relating to middle adulthood, c 2020 to c 2029