Mirron Willis
***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
J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket.
On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball
When former drug kingpin Keith "Big K" Turner is released from prison after serving sixteen years, things aren't as they once were. Not only has the neighborhood he once reigned over changed;...