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We were immediately drawn to Vincent Anioke’s debut story collection the moment we read it, for the power and elegance of its tightly controlled prose, and for its nuanced exploration of the lives of its Nigerian characters. Here we find investigations into masculinity and power dynamics, between headmasters and students, brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters. There are moments of repressed queerness, grief, trauma, and tenderness, emblematic of the things we do in love’s name (or in its absence).
Vincent Anioke is a queer Black writer born and raised in Nigeria and now living in Waterloo, Canada. In Vincent’s own words: “The impetus of this book is also the impetus of the theme I am compelled to explore: love fascinates me; how it compels us to seek it; how its presence or absence determines our behavior; the depths to which it drives us; how it makes each of us perfect angels or destructive demons.” Vincent was a 2023 finalist for the $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada for the story “Mama’s Lullabies,” included in this collection, about suppressed queer desire that comes between a Nigerian ex-pat couple living in Toronto. Other storylines include a ghost who delights a grief-stricken partner; boarding school staff that enacts revenge on their students; an addict who seek a fresh start in pottery class; and a man returns home from university abroad with confessions that unravel his mother’s world.
Comps include God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, a story collection with similar sub-themes of contemporary queerness and conditional love, also set primarily in Nigeria; A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley, a story collection that explores Black men reacting to systems of marginalization and inequity as well as to the complexities of their own desires; and our own Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi, which also explores themes of love and family set against a Nigerian backdrop.
Publicity by Alyson Sinclair, Nectar Literary
© 2024 Arsenal Pulp Press (eBook): 9781551529448
Fecha de lanzamiento
eBook: 7 de mayo de 2024
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Cuentos
We were immediately drawn to Vincent Anioke’s debut story collection the moment we read it, for the power and elegance of its tightly controlled prose, and for its nuanced exploration of the lives of its Nigerian characters. Here we find investigations into masculinity and power dynamics, between headmasters and students, brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters. There are moments of repressed queerness, grief, trauma, and tenderness, emblematic of the things we do in love’s name (or in its absence).
Vincent Anioke is a queer Black writer born and raised in Nigeria and now living in Waterloo, Canada. In Vincent’s own words: “The impetus of this book is also the impetus of the theme I am compelled to explore: love fascinates me; how it compels us to seek it; how its presence or absence determines our behavior; the depths to which it drives us; how it makes each of us perfect angels or destructive demons.” Vincent was a 2023 finalist for the $10,000 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada for the story “Mama’s Lullabies,” included in this collection, about suppressed queer desire that comes between a Nigerian ex-pat couple living in Toronto. Other storylines include a ghost who delights a grief-stricken partner; boarding school staff that enacts revenge on their students; an addict who seek a fresh start in pottery class; and a man returns home from university abroad with confessions that unravel his mother’s world.
Comps include God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, a story collection with similar sub-themes of contemporary queerness and conditional love, also set primarily in Nigeria; A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley, a story collection that explores Black men reacting to systems of marginalization and inequity as well as to the complexities of their own desires; and our own Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi, which also explores themes of love and family set against a Nigerian backdrop.
Publicity by Alyson Sinclair, Nectar Literary
© 2024 Arsenal Pulp Press (eBook): 9781551529448
Fecha de lanzamiento
eBook: 7 de mayo de 2024
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