"Exploring the bonds between three women across thirty years, this Nigeria-set debut delves into the complexities of female friendship, love, race, and class with sparkling insights."
Heralding the arrival of a new, crisply lyrical voice in fiction, devotees of novels that centre women’s experiences with wisdom and fresh, thoughtful perspectives will find Tomi Obaro’s Dele Weds Destiny debut utterly un-put-down-able.
It follows the interlocked lives of Zainab, Funmi and Enitan, who first meet as students at university in northern Nigeria. Bound by this seminal experience, a time when all three young women made huge leaps in discovering who they were, their lives diverge on different paths around the world, and they’re now reunited at the wedding of Funmi's daughter, Destiny, with each character brilliantly nuanced.
As for those divergent paths, which we follow alongside the 2015 context of Destiny’s wedding, Funmi lives in luxury as the wife of a big businessman, New York-based Enitan is separating from her husband (a white man she eloped with), and Zainab is a single mother to four sons.
As seen during their reunion, the women exemplify tremendous differences in status and experiences, and yet their connections still hold, with their daughters further revealing generational connections and divergences that ring with universal truths about life, experiences of friendship, and what it means to feel at home.
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Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro
Dele Weds Destiny features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Sharing Diverse Voices, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, General Fiction, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Debut Books of the Month, Recommendations, Debuts
Dele Weds Destiny is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Dele Weds Destiny was written by Tomi Obaro and published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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