“Get to know Lagos in this irresistible masterpiece by Chibundu Onuzo. “Heralds the young writer’s great talent, her ability to weave together multiple story lines into one vibrant tapestry, and her gift at inhabiting myriad perspectives while maintaining the singularity of each individual voice.” ― NYLON When he’s commanded to take innocent lives, he sets off to Lagos where he gets involved in the midst a new scandal with a new group of misfits, all destined to make a change.” ― Parade “Chike Ameobi may be an army officer in Nigeria but he doesn’t take orders from just anyone. “An adventure to somewhere I’ve never been.” ―Jake Tapper, The Washington Post “Onuzo’s lively, well-plotted novel summons up the great city of Lagos with all its complexity.” ―Houston Chronicle It is a true testament to Onuzo’s natural storytelling skills that she orchestrates, with humor, panache and multilingualism, the meeting of all these characters.” ― Star Tribune “Lives as varied as they are storied find themselves together in Lagos. Conversations between Onuzo’s characters move fluidly between Igbo, Yoruba, pidgin and English, demonstrating her skilled ear.” ― The New York Times Book Review portrait of Nigeria’s sprawling metropolis. “ Welcome to Lagos, the American debut of Chibundu Onuzo.

But action is secondary to atmosphere: Onuzo excels at evoking a stratified city, where society weddings feature ‘ice sculptures as cold as the unmarried belles’ and thugs write tidy receipts for kickbacks extorted from homeless travelers.” ― The New Yorker Selected to Best of Summer Reading Lists by Parade, Elle, NYLON, PopSugar, The Millions, PureWow,, Hearst Media, Bitch Media, and Read It Forward

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