What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom? Is freedom for everyone? In Necessary Fiction, Eloghosa Osunde poses these questions while exploring the paths and dreams, hopes and fears of more than two dozen characters who are staking out lives for themselves in contemporary Nigeria.
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.
