Vagabonds!

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780593330036 Author(s): Eloghosa Osunde Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 320

Description: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKERLONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARDA?If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.A? A?Los Angeles TimesIn the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid charactersA?some haunted, some defiantA?navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. A‚ As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transientA‚ spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities.A‚ Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwineA?in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel roomsA?vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing theirA‚ shadowselves, Osunde's characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion. A‚  Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duressA?and in triumph.

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