Irenosen Okojie

Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize. A startling debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Butterfly Fish. Okojie's collection of stories are captivating, erotic, enigmatic and disturbing. Irenosen Okojie's gift is in her understated humour, her light touch, her razor-sharp assessment of the best and...

"I loved it. Vivid, brutal, moving and tender. This is heartfelt and immersive." Joanne Harris Curandera is the mesmerising by-product of Okojie's extraordinary imagination and writing that is mind-bogglingly glorious." Yvvette Edwards In the mountainous town of Gethsemane, 17th-century Cape Verde, a mysterious woman's arrival sparks a series of strange events that will leave the town's inhabitants changed: men sporadically...