A Kind of Madness: Stories by Okonkwo, Uche
A Kind of Madness: Stories by Okonkwo, Uche

A Kind of Madness: Stories

Finalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing An...
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Author: Uche Okonkwo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Kind of Madness: Stories by Okonkwo, Uche

A Kind of Madness: Stories

$55.99 $29.06
A Kind of Madness: Stories by Okonkwo, Uche

A Kind of Madness: Stories

$55.99 $29.06
Author: Uche Okonkwo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Finalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut

Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing

An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024

"Steady-handed and gut-punching. I'm in awe."―NoViolet Bulawayo

In ten vivid, evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's extraordinary debut asks: why are the people and places we hold closest so often the ones that drive us to madness?

A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich, vivacious friend, but as the friend's behavior grows unstable and dangerous, she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs. A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgium--though when the offer fails to materialize, that envy threatens to turn vicious, pitting them both against their community. And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an ill-fated quest, struggling to come to terms with her mother's mental illness.

Across ten stories, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings, and more, marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction.

Author: Uche Okonkwo
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.57w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9781959030386


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/26/2024
Booklist 03/15/2024 pg. 39

About the Author
Uche Okonkwo's stories have been published in A Public Space, One Story, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, and Lagos Noir, among others. A former Bernard O'Keefe Scholar at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and resident at Art Omi, she is a recipient of the George Bennett Fellowship at Phillips Exeter Academy, a Steinbeck Fellowship, and an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. Okonkwo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and is currently pursuing a creative writing PhD at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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