Ore Agbaje-Williams is a British Nigerian writer and book editor from London.
The Three of Us is her first novel.
At LitHub she shared a reading list of "books featuring very, very complicated friendships to make you and your friends feel like the normal, stable people you undoubtedly are." One title on the list:
Exit West by Mohsin HamidRead about the other entries on the list.
This is cheating—a little—because this book is technically about a couple, but when I read it, I felt their connection more through their friendship than their romance. They growapart in the most beautiful and natural way, realizing that their desires have become different but allowing them to change and not break their relationship to each other entirely. It’s a melancholy—in the best way—reminder of what happens to our friendships as we deal with the ebbs and flows of life, and how much they can change us.
Exit West is among Gian Sardar's eight of the best novels about war-torn love, C Pam Zhang's top ten novels about moving and Helen Phillips's six notable novels involving alternate realities.
--Marshal Zeringue
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