happiness like water by chinelo okparanta

Happiness, Like Water is a deeply affecting literary debut, the work of a sure and gifted new writer. What a remarkable new talent.-Chika Unigwe A haunting and startlingly original collection of short stories about the lives of Nigerians both at home and in America. These powerful stories of contemporary Nigeria are told with compassion and a certain sense of humor. This is an arrival.-NoViolet Bulawayo Okparanta's prose is tender, beautiful and evocative. I think, sometimes, it takes time for people to digest what literature is really doing, the literary icon says. With Harry Sylvester Bird, she still isn’t looking to satisfy society. I devoured these stories and immediately wanted more. Cover Story: Chinelo Okparanta, Gentle Defier With Happiness, Like Water and Under the Udala Trees, she helped herald LGBTQ visibility in Nigerian literature. Intricate, graceful prose propels Okparanta's profoundly moving and illuminating book. Happiness, Like Water introduces a true talent, a young writer with a beautiful heart and a capacious imagination. Here are stories filled with language to make your eyes pause and your throat catch. Here is a portrait of Nigerians that is surprising, shocking, heartrending, loving, and across social strata, dealing in every kind of change. Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush landscapes, folktales, buses that break down and never start up again. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties. Okparanta's narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such lucidity and composure, that in each and every case the truths of their lives detonate deep inside the reader's heart, with the power and force of revelation.-Paul Harding Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love.

Happiness like water by chinelo okparanta