Overview
Region
West Africa
Nigeria
Era
Contemporary
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Enitan and her neighbor Sheri grow up in Lagos through the 1970s-90s, their friendship shaped by Nigeria's political upheavals, military rule, and the private violences of gender, a deeply feminist coming-of-age epic.
Literary Significance
Won the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature; established Atta as a leading voice in Nigerian women's fiction