Terra Cotta Beauty ~ Jola Naibi
So my book is finally done and coming out soon. Here is a snippet:
My mother died when I was four years old. I remember few things about her, but I do remember that in the mornings when she woke me up and carried me, she often smelled of the earth. It was the same matinal smell that my grandmother had. I found out the secret of that smell just before I turned twelve.
Follow the daily lives, loves, and hopes of an entire community in Jola Naibi’s poignant debut. A carefully crafted selection of short stories, this collection examines life in Lagos, Nigeria, during the era of harsh military rule. It reveals the struggles, loves, and hopes of a disparate group of people whose lives always manage to intersect – sometimes in the most devastating ways.
With each brief conversation and split-second decision containing consequences that reach further than anyone could ever imagine, each of the book’s seven tales is a delicate thread that helps form the social fabric of a nation in peril.
From a woman whose journalist husband is jailed for criticizing the government to a young man’s reluctant descent into crime, Terra Cotta Beauty acts as a carefully crafted ode to the very essence of Lagos itself: its people.
