Black Sunday (Signed, First Edition)

Abraham, Tola Rotimi

ISBN 10: 1948226561 / ISBN 13: 9781948226561

Published by Catapult, 2020

About this Item

NY: Catapult, 2020. Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition, first printing (complete number line). Flat Signed by the author on title page (see images). Size 6 x 9 inches, 277 pp. Bound in white boards with gold titles are clean and solid with sharp edges, corners and spine. Pages are clean, no names or remainder markings, not Ex-Library. Unclipped DJ with price ($26.00) is clean, protected by Brodart archival mylar jacket. Book and DJ condition: Near Fine. Books are shipped quickly and securely packed in a box. "original debut novel follows the fate of four siblings over two decades in Nigeria as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Black Sunday (Signed, First Edition)
• Publisher: Catapult
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948226561
• ISBN 13: 9781948226561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

This fiercely original debut novel follows four Nigerian siblings over the course of two decades as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy.

“. . . lush, sharp, and shot through with hope!" —Well-Read Black Girl

I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth.

Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power.

Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.

About the Author

Tola Rotimi Abraham is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. She lives in Iowa City and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in journalism. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught writing at the University of Iowa. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Catapult, The Des Moines Register, The Nigerian Literary Magazine, and other places.