Everything Good Will Come (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566565707)

Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule--though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two African girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it. Written in the voice of Enitan, the novel traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and a war-torn Nigeria. In the end, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan's story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Enitan bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom: her desire for a child. 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.

Author: Sefi Atta
ISBN-10: 1566565707
ISBN-13: 9781566565707
Publisher: Interlink Books
Language: English
Published: 12/28/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.70w x 1.08d
Award: IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 62
Booklist 03/01/2005 pg. 1140