
- 146 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with."--Emmanuel Iduma, Editor, Saraba Magazine.
A grandmother with a food-induced encounter, an ecclesial romance with a tomcat set in the throes of uncertain times, eating and drinking for freedom, wife battery under the watchful eyes of communal love, desperately seeking lovers burdened by violent pasts, and a woman taking liberty after nine children with nine husbands are some of the characters and stories in Antoinette Tidjani Alou's debut fiction collection.
In fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we yearn to tie around ourselves: familial, spousal, parental, professional, and societal. It tackles how we struggle in relationships for nourishment and fulfilment, and how relationships could kill us and how we could kill to survive-a potent force for understanding humanity and the nuances of acts of violence, tolerance, faith and love.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes
- Odds and Ends
- Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Eating and Drinking and Raising Hell
- December Evenings
- Magda
- Into the Dark
- Walking Baby
- Rosanna Goes Shopping
- Sleeping with the Doll
- The Dance
- Karim
- Granpa Joseph
- Woman to Woman
- The Trip Back Home
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover