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A vital work for our times IRENOSEN OKOJIE Radical gorgeous a queer love song honouring chosen family BIG ISSUE Beautiful this is prose worth spending time with MARIE CLAIRE A gorgeously deeply humane book NICOLE DENNIS BENN A vivid stirring revolution YRSA DALEY WARD The ink practically hovers off the page KAVEH AKBARWhat makes a family How is it defined and by whom Across Lagos a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms daring to push all other relationships with partners relatives and friends to the brink in the process Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed they work to establish themselves in the worlds of art music entertainment and creativity in the city all while reckoning with desire fear death and God To build a queer community they must all grapple with the necessary fictions that they carry for survival Both deeply earnest and unique VULTURE Unabashedly queer complicated and occasionally outright hopeful NPR Osunde is brilliant at character giving the cast rich knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation TLS Necessary Fiction s Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself brazen willful sexy dynamic explosive MARLON JAMES author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Osunde s