***Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction***
***Longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize***

In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God's Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival of a daring new voice in fiction.

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity.

Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria. An AKO Caine Prize for African Writing finalist and A Public Space Writing Fellow, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in A Public Space, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, One Story, and Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. God's Children Are Little Broken Things is his first book.

Categories

• Short Stories (single author)
• Literary
• LGBTQ+ - Gay

Product Details

ISBN: 9781734590715
ISBN-10: 1734590718
Publisher: Public Space Books
Publication Date: June 7th, 2022
Pages: 220
Language: English