nordstina 's review for:

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories by Damilare Kuku

3.5

fast-paced

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Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad is a short, bingeable short story collection with really a fantastic title! Damilare Kuku centers her stories, as you expect from the title, on mad, mostly misbehaving men from Lagos. Most of the stories are written from a woman's point of view. Some of the women feel empowered, some disappointed. Because all of the stories really revolve around relationships, they feel quite consistent across themes, which is good and bad. I tend to find short stories hit or miss, but this was good, but I also did not resonate with one or two in particular. There's a lot of cheating, dating, and disappointment in these tales. Also, there is a lot of relatively explicit sex in many of the stories (take that however you like). Because this is such a short collection, it was a pleasant departure from some of my other reads and would recommend to others to read this amuse-bouche of a collection.

Thank you to HarperVia for the advance reader copy in exchange for honest review.