Welcome to Litsy!

Everything Good Will Come evokes the sights and smells of Africa while imparting a wise and universal story of love, friendship, prejudice, survival, politics, and the cost of divided loyalties.

#goodwill

#deardecember

This one suffered a bit from a slightly misleading synopsis, in that the female friendship is not the main focus of the story, at least not the bulk of it. I wasn‘t as interested in Enitan‘s eventual marriage and the political arcs. However, this is still beautifully written and I appreciated the main character‘s depth and her internal struggle with being true to herself in the face of pressure to do the opposite. 3/5 ⭐️

“I am a lawyer.”

“I hear that‘s curable.”

🤣🤣🤣

“Never make sacrifices for a man. By the time you say, ‘Look what I‘ve done for you,‘ it‘s too late. They never remember. And the day you begin to retaliate, they never forget.”

My body pressed on. Then it seemed that my mind, which had been lagging behind, soon began to say, “Wait for me. Wait for me.“

If she sounded cynical, I‘d always found the cynical to be honest, like the mad: they could not be manipulated into pretending that it was good to ignore the bad things in life.

Sheri had led me to the gap between parental consent and disapproval. I would learn how to bridge it with deception, wearing a face as pious as a church sister before my mother and altering steadily behind her.

Don‘t know much about this one, but it‘s about female friendship over many years and through times of war and strife and change, which is all I need to know, really. #nowreading

This was sitting patiently in my TBR stack for a while gathering dust. Glad I brushed it off and read it finally. Complex, dramatic, humorous, and heartbreaking, it was also very empowering. Told in multiple voices, on the surface it‘s about wife number four joining a family and their struggles to adjust. In truth, it‘s about Bolanle living life on her own terms, even though it‘s hard. Beautifully told.

#diversereads #nigerianauthors #polygamy