Happiness, Like Water introduces a true talent, a young writer with a beautiful heart and a capacious imagination. Here are stories filled with language to make your eyes pause and your throat catch. Here is a portrait of Nigerians that is surprising, shocking, heartrending, loving, and across social strata, dealing in every kind of change. Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush landscapes, folktales, buses that break down and never start up again. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties. Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. "A haunting and startlingly original collection of short stories about the lives of Nigerians both at home and in America."-Julie Otsuka, national bestselling author
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