You’re a beautiful man. - Chigozie Obioma

Loneliness is the violent dog that barks interminably through the long night of grief.

Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm.

in Umuahia, a town in the land of the great fathers...