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Title	:	Black Sunday
Author	:	Tola Rotimi Abraham
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 277 pages
Published	:	February 4th 2020 by Catapult
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Western Africa. Nigeria. Literary Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. African Literature

Black Sunday

Tola Rotimi Abraham

Hardcover | Pages: 277 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 268 Users | 61 Reviews

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Following the fate of one family over the course of two decades in Nigeria, this debut novel tells the story of each sibling’s search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy but also endless life

“I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone.”

Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth.

Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power.

Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.

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Original Title:	Black Sunday
ISBN:	1948226561 (ISBN13: 9781948226561)
Edition Language:	English

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I wished for more about each of the children as they grew from abandoned youngsters into self-sufficient adults. A bit disjointed.

I'd give this book a solid 3. I liked it and I never wanted to stop reading, but by the time I reached the end I felt two things: 1. there were too many people and things left to the imagination. That is, too many storylines with loose ends for my liking. 2. I wished that the author had given me more where the twins are concerned - that is, allowed me to like them more, or care more about what happens to them next.Having said that, this book packs a powerful punch. It's not light reading.

Not exactly the type of book I would normally read (this was a book club pick) but it was ok. The sexualized parts I didnt like at all also some of the terminology/slang words were a little distracting. But the book was well written.

We meet Bibike and Ariyike as twin girls who've only recently entered their teenage years. While their family wouldn't be considered rich, they are comfortable--which is to say they have adequate shelter, consistent food on the table, and no real worries about their day-to-day lives. However, when their mother is fired from an esteemed government job, and forced into taking a lower-paying one, their fortunes take a turn for the worse; eventually leading to their father taking a big gamble on

Engaging family drama told through each of four siblings

Another beautiful story set in Lagos, Nigeria by a brilliant Nigerian writer!

Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham provided me a wide array of emotional experience including heartbreak, anger, frustration, shock, sorrow, and hope. Black Sunday is by no means an easy read, but it certainly is worthwhile.Black Sunday depicts how family is influenced by the complexities of wealth and identity within urban Nigeria. I found myself deeply invested in the children in this book, and hoping that all of their complications would be resolved, but alas, that is not how this story