An immersive experience ... Inventively bold and affecting, its obsessions go deep but are crystal clear ... With its nonexistent plot and shifting points of view, [this book] is packed with dozens of multifaceted characters that are hard to keep track of.... Not exactly a slog but definitely not a breeze of a read.
Readers might be overwhelmed with over two-dozen characters, but the atmosphere and culture of lesser-known circles in Nigerian society will capture the imagination ... Candid and descriptive.
Messy ... Osunde’s prose is beautiful, if at times a bit overwrought, and they have clearly put a lot of thought into their characters, whom they treat with tenderness and compassion. But there’s not much in the way of a plot, and the novel tends toward the scattered and shambolic. This is a tone poem of a book, a novel that relies on connections, but never fully connects.
