One title from the Guardian's list of the best African fiction of 2013:Happiness like Water by Chinelo OkparantaRead about the other entries on the list.
Chinelo Okparanta's first work, Runs Girls, was published in the Exit Strategies issue of Granta magazine. Happiness like Water is her debut collection of short stories, centred on the challenges facing Nigerians at home and abroad. A couple struggling to conceive; two women isolated in different ways seeks comfort with each other; and a young woman struggles with a dilemma to save her mother's life.
--Marshal Zeringue
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