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QUIXOTIC FISSURES

Irenosen Okojie
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  • ISBN 9781408773147
  • Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Nov 2026
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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QUIXOTIC FISSURES is a hybrid collection of essays, stories and other writing that foreground moments of transformation, reconfiguration and regeneration of the body and the mind.
Irenosen Okojie takes as her starting point the idea of carrying trauma in the body, exploring experiences of depression and illness; considering healing powers shared between generations of women in her family; and recounting her experience of prejudice at an all girls English boarding school with spirit, humour and insight.
The collection closes with The Things I Remember About My Father, a deeply moving essay in which we witness the affirmation of a deep, transgenerational bond in spite of a devastating loss. As the pieces make clear, this will be a work of boundless imagination and acute inquiry that celebrates the evolving body moving through life with all its pain and glory.
About Irenosen Okojie
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her debut novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards. Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review and a co-presenter of the BBC's Turn Up for The Books podcast. She has also judged various literary prizes including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature in 2021. She is the director and founder of Black to the Future festival.

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