This Kind of Trouble

''Where are the fragments of the life you have lived?'' 2005 In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others'' memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she can remember, by winding her way through a complex family history. Though they are no longer the twenty-somethings they once were when they met, and the 40 years that have passed since they last saw one another might suggest they are strangers, there is a deep and unsettling history that has bound them together since long before they were born. 1905 A well-respected chief in Umumilo village, Nigeria, Okolo has always followed tradition. Then three of the young village women - including his sister, who follows the white man''s God - are shrouded in scandal, and Okolo is forced to choose which path to take: that of least resistance, embracing the ways of the white man to save his village and his sister''s pride, or the other, preserving the ways that have sustained generations - but at what cost? A beautifully crafted multi-generational story of family history and identity, This Kind of Trouble is a powerful debut that asks what makes up a life, and how when it''s broken, we might put it together again.

A propos de l'auteur

Tochi Eze

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Tochi Eze
• Edition: Cornerstone
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529928754
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-2875-4
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 215 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, Atlanta, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Lagos, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, FICTION / African American & Black / General, FICTION / Own Voices, Narrative theme: Health and illness, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships, FICTION / Family Life / Multigenerational, FICTION / Places / United States, FICTION / Places / Africa