Tiny sunbirds far away
By: Christie Watson
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781849163743
Subjects: Country life Nigeria Fiction; Grandparent and child Nigeria Fiction; Teenage girls Nigeria Fiction; Niger River Delta (Nigeria) Social conditions Fiction; Families Nigeria Fiction; Fiction
Description: 'Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.' Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel - only married women can work there - and soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go and live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, it is peopled with characters you will never forget.
Notes: Debut novel.