God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories
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In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival of a daring new voice in fiction.
A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn’t understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity.
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I'm not a fan of short story collections, but this sounded too good not to read, so I did. (Also the title is one of the best I've seen)
The writing was beautiful and I'd love to read a full-length novel by Ifeakandu one day.
My favorite stories were
- Happy Is a Doing Word
- Where the Heart Sleeps
- What the Singers Say About Love
- Mother's love
