How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question which takes a mother on a journey of self-discovery. A bold and unflinching tale of one women's unconventional approach to life and loss.
Yewande Omotoso Book order
Yewande Omotoso writes prose that delves into the complexities of identity and migration. Her work explores themes of displacement and the search for belonging with keen observation and empathetic understanding. The author examines how environment and cultural background shape our relationships and self-perception. Her style is incisive yet sensitive, offering readers profound insights into the human experience.
- 2021
- 2019
Bom Boy
- 182 pages
- 7 hours of reading
From the Dublin Literary Award and Women's Prize for Fiction longlisted author of The Woman Next Door and An Unusual Grief Wandering in Cape Town, Leke stalks people, steals small objects, and visits doctors and healers in search of a cure. But he isn't sure what ails him--loneliness, or the family curse.
- 2016
The Woman Next Door
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them. Both have recently been widowed. Both are in their eighties. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal. But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. Could long-held mutual loathing transform into friendship? Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done. 'Wit, charm and playful energy... An insightful and fascinating diptych of two women, with the history of colonialism and slavery lurking in the background' Herald