Black Sunday

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, is drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth. Soon Bibike and Ariyike' s father wagers the family home on a ' sure bet' that evaporates like smoke. As their parents' marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings Andrew and Peter are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins' paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power. Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham' s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.

Author: Tola Rotimi Abraham
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 02/18/2020
Binding Type: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 5.30h x 5.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781690584520


Award: Kirkus Prize - Finalist

About the Author
Abraham, Tola Rotimi: - Tola Rotimi Abraham is a writer, a journalist, and a teacher whose fiction and nonfiction has appeared in publications such as Catapult, The Des Moines Register, and The Nigerian Literary Magazine. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, she is currently pursuing a graduate degree in journalism in Iowa City, Iowa.Butler, Ron: - Ron Butler is a Los Angeles based actor who works regularly as a commercial and animation voiceover artist and an audiobook narrator. A member of the Atlantic Theater Company, he has over a hundred film and television credits to his name and won an Independent Filmmaker Project Award for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.Femi, Liz: - Liz Femi is a Nigerian-American actress and writer, as well as the creator of the award-winning, critically acclaimed solo play Take Me to the Poorhouse. She received her master's degree at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University and has voiced several theater productions in various African accents.
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