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- ISBN 9780008708658
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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‘A vital work for our times’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE
‘Radical, gorgeous … a queer love song, honouring chosen family’ BIG ISSUE
‘Beautiful … this is prose worth spending time with’ MARIE CLAIRE
‘A gorgeously deeply humane book’ NICOLE DENNIS-BENN
‘A vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD
‘The ink practically hovers off the page’ KAVEH AKBAR
What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom?
Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships – with partners, relatives and friends – to the brink in the process. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity in the city, all while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. To build a queer community, they must all grapple with the necessary fictions that they carry for survival.
‘Both deeply earnest and unique’ VULTURE
‘Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful’ NPR
‘Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation’ TLS
‘Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’ MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
‘Osunde’s writing shines … It’s not just beautiful – it’s transformative’ BASSEY IKPI, author of I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying
Eloghosa Osunde is an award-winning writer and multidisciplinary artist. Their critically acclaimed debut novel Vagabonds! was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. They are the recipient of the Plimpton Prize for Fiction 2021, the MoAD’s African Literary Award 2023 and an ASME Award for Fiction. Their writing has been published in The Paris Review, Granta, Guernica and elsewhere. They move between Nigeria, Nairobi, New York City and wherever else their work calls. They can be found online at eloghosaosunde.com.
