Five Stars · Lola's Favourite Right Now
The one she cannot stop talking about.
★★★★★
Literary Fiction · Nigerian · Family
Cursed Daughters
Oyinkan Braithwaite does something very specific and very difficult — she writes Nigerian women who are complicated, funny, and completely human without explaining them to anyone. Cursed Daughters has the same sharp wit and dark undertow that made My Sister the Serial Killer unforgettable. The prose is deceptively simple, the observations are surgical, and the relationships between women in this book are rendered with the kind of honesty that most writers either cannot access or are afraid to put on the page.
The story stays with you the way a real conversation stays with you. Not because of what was said, but because of what was left sitting in the air between the sentences.
"Braithwaite writes Nigerian women who are complicated and completely human without explaining them to anyone."
Five stars. Buy it. Read it slowly. Then call someone and talk about it for an hour.
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