Dele weds Destiny : a novel

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Label

Dele weds Destiny : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Tomi Obaro

Creator

• trueObaro, Tomi, 1990-

Author

• trueObaro, Tomi, 1990-

Subject

• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• trueNigeria
• Nigerians -- Fiction
• trueNorth American people
• Novels
• trueReunions
• Reunions -- Fiction
• trueSocial classes
• trueWeddings
• Weddings -- Fiction
• trueWest African people
• trueWomen
• trueWomen -- Nigeria
• trueAfrican people
• trueAmerican people
• trueCollege friends
• trueExpatriate women
• trueFemale friendship
• Female friendship -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueLagos, Nigeria
• trueLoss
• Loss (Psychology)
• trueMarriage
• trueMothers and daughters

Genre

• Novels
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring. The novel follows each woman's life after college and their subsequent loves and losses--from Funmi's passionate and political boyfriend to Enitan's whirlwind romance with an American Peace Corps volunteer and Zainab's ruptured relationship with her father after her engagement to one of his colleagues. Now, some thirty years later, the three women are reunited for the first time, in Lagos. The occasion: Funmi's daughter, Destiny, is getting married. Enitan brings her American daughter, Remi. Zainab travels by bus, nervously leaving her ailing husband in the care of their son. Funmi, hosting the weekend of elaborate festivities with her wealthy husband, wants everything to go perfectly. But as the big day approaches, it becomes clear that something is not right. As the novel builds powerfully toward the big event, the complexities of the mothers' friendship--and the private wisdom each has earned--come to bear on a riveting, heartrending moment of decision. Dele Weds Destiny is a sensational debut from a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction. --

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueOwn voices

Tone

• trueMoving

Award

Loan Stars Favourites, 2022.

Assigning source

dust cover

Cataloging source

IEN/DLC

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

general