Lola Shoneyin’s novel, The Secret Lives of the Four Wives, touched me so deeply, bringing up issues that you would hope would be obsolete by now but are unfortunately alive and not-so-well. The story takes place in Nigeria and revolves around Baba Segi and his four wives, who are all such multi-layered characters, you feel like…
I met Gabrielle Gosselin at the Jo Malone counter in Bloomingdale’s, where somehow we started talking about Africa. She had just gotten back and was feeling a little out of sorts, especially amidst the excess of Bloomie’s. I was so impressed by what she had been doing on the other end of the world and…
We’re always excited to hear from readers in other countries so when Chioma Agwuegbo emailed us a few months ago, we immediately enlisted her to write a guest post! Chioma grew up in Nigeria, where she graduated from Ebonyi State University with a degree in Mass Communication. She’s worked as a researcher, writer and producer…
We seem to devour Laura Dave’s books around here faster than she can write them so we were thrilled when she sent us a copy of her latest, The First Husband. Once again, she’s written a page-turner about our favorite subject — love. Don’t let the fact that her novels are so readable fool you,…
We love books that are not only great stories but that also teach us something we never knew. We can always count on Geraldine Brooks to do that — People of the Book, Year of Wonders and March should all be required reading in history classes. In her new novel, Caleb’s Crossing, Geraldine introduces us…
