Lagos Will Be Hard For You

Name: Lagos Will Be Hard For You
SKU: 105672
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These stories are an excavation of what it means to be at the labyrinthine crossroads of desire, ambition, and tradition.

An almost-blind mother pawns her daughter off to save her. A grieving son must bury his Muslim father in twenty-four hours in the thick of winter. A doctor battles to save her partner from himself. Desperation makes a young businesswoman seek out a spiritual experience. Two men kidnap a White man to fight the infiltration of oil companies in Southern Nigeria. A boy escapes his bipolar mother.

Ayotola Tehingbola’s debut is a contemporary collection of short stories, set between Nigeria and the US, which explores the constant straddling of two worlds: the need to make sense of home, and the weight of being lost and out of place in a new world.

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About the Author

Ayotola Tehingbola is a lawyer, photographer, writer, and translator. Her writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Witness, CRAFT, Passages North, Quarterly West, etc., and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net Anthology. Her manuscript was shortlisted for the 2023 Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize for Debut Novel, and she is a three-time recipient of a Glenn Bach Award for Fiction.

She has been supported by the Lagos International Poetry Festival, Hudson Valley Writers Center, GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing, Alexa Rose Foundation, Idaho Commission on the Arts, and Kimbilio for Black Fiction.