num_pages: 305
description: An edgy bitingly funny debut about a queer half-Nigerian college sophomore who enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college sets out to find truth about The Unfortunatesthe unlucky subset of Black undergrads who have been mysteriously dyingSahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year at Elite University she feels like a failure: her body is too curvy her love life is nonexistent her family is disappointed in her her grades are terrible and well the few Black classmates she has just keep dying. Sahara is close to giving up herself: her depression is as she says her only Life Partner. And this narrativetaking the form of an irreverent piercing thesis to the university committee that will judge heris meant to be a final unfurling of her singular unforgettable voice before her own inevitable disappearance and death. But over the course of this wild sophomore year and supported by her eccentric community of BIPOC women Sahara will eventually find hope answers and an unexpected redemption.
language: English
title: The Unfortunates
publisher: Harper