{"product_id":"necessary-fiction-2","title":"Necessary Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A vital work for our times’ \u003c\/strong\u003eIRENOSEN OKOJIE\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Radical, gorgeous … a queer love song, honouring chosen family’\u003c\/strong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eBIG ISSUE\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Beautiful … this is prose worth spending time with’\u003c\/strong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A gorgeously deeply humane book’\u003c\/strong\u003e NICOLE DENNIS-BENN\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘A vivid, stirring revolution’ \u003c\/strong\u003eYRSA DALEY-WARD\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘The ink practically hovers off the page’ \u003c\/strong\u003eKAVEH AKBAR\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eWhat makes a family? How is it defined and by whom?\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003eAcross 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Both deeply earnest and unique’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eVULTURE\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\n            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\n            \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\n          \u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’\u003c\/strong\u003e MARLON JAMES, author of \u003cem\u003eA Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n          \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Osunde’s writing shines … It’s not just beautiful – it’s transformative’ \u003c\/strong\u003eBASSEY IKPI, author of \u003cem\u003eI’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56672766984536,"sku":"9780008708658","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780008708658.jpg?v=1780118165","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/necessary-fiction-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}