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Dele weds Destiny : a novel / Tomi Obaro.
"A novel in which three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years at the lavish wedding of one of their daughters"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593320297 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Female friendship > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. Middle-aged women > Fiction. Reunions > Fiction. Weddings > Fiction. Women > Nigeria > Fiction. Lagos (Nigeria) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Obaro | 31681010282234 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria reunite at the posh Lagos wedding of one of their daughters and recount the events of the past 30 years including loves, losses, an abortion and an affair with an American Peace Corps volunteer. - Baker & Taylor
"A novel in which three Nigerian women, friends since their university days, are reunited in Lagos for the first time in thirty years at the lavish wedding of one of their daughters"-- - Random House, Inc.
A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ⢠The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty yearsâa sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship.
âA story rendered with so much heart.â âTaylor Jenkins Reid, best-selling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six
Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth.
Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever really saw her, but is culturally so different from himâa Connecticut WASPâthat raising their daughter together put them at odds. How Zainab fell in love with her teacher, a friend of her fatherâs, and ruptured her relationship with her father to have him.
Now, some thirty years later, the three women are reunited for the first time, in Lagos. The occasion: Funmiâs daughter, Destiny, is getting married. Enitan brings her American daughter, Remi. Zainab travels by bus, nervously leaving her ailing husband in the care of their son. Funmi, hosting the weekend with her wealthy husband, wants everything to go perfectly. But as the big day approaches, it becomes clear that something is not right. As the novel builds powerfully, the complexities of the mothersâ friendshipâand the private wisdom each has earnedâcome to bear on a riveting, heartrending moment of decision. Dele Weds Destiny is a sensational debut from a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction.
