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Necessary Fiction: A Novel
by Eloghosa Osunde
‘If anyone deserves to live, it is us. It is us, after all this dying we have done.’
This is going to be a really important book for a lot of people. Floating between members of a queer found family in Lagos Nigeria, it asks what it takes to choose to live your truth life in a world that seems determined to erase certain realities. What does it cost to overcome the burden of parental shame? How does found family make healing possible and allow the imagination of a better future?
This book felt very fluid, it didn’t stick to a plot and was more a character study of different members of the friend group. There were lots of moments that felt very poignant and heavy, but others felt somewhat over-therapized and distant.
This reminded me a bit of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi but with less plot and a more hopeful outlook. I think people who grew up in or are familiar with this space will feel very held and healed by these stories.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC
This is going to be a really important book for a lot of people. Floating between members of a queer found family in Lagos Nigeria, it asks what it takes to choose to live your truth life in a world that seems determined to erase certain realities. What does it cost to overcome the burden of parental shame? How does found family make healing possible and allow the imagination of a better future?
This book felt very fluid, it didn’t stick to a plot and was more a character study of different members of the friend group. There were lots of moments that felt very poignant and heavy, but others felt somewhat over-therapized and distant.
This reminded me a bit of Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi but with less plot and a more hopeful outlook. I think people who grew up in or are familiar with this space will feel very held and healed by these stories.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC