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Dele weds Destiny : a novel
First edition.
Obaro, Tomi, 1990- author.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Pub date: 2022.
Pages: 241 pages ;
ISBN: 9780593320297
1 copy available at University of Alberta - Rutherford Library.
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University of Alberta - Rutherford Library
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Dele weds Destiny : a novel First edition.
    Obaro, Tomi, 1990- author.
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Dele weds Destiny : a novel First edition.
    Obaro, Tomi, 1990- author.
Personal Author: Obaro, Tomi, 1990- author.
Title: Dele weds Destiny : a novel / Tomi Obaro.
Edition: First edition.
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright date: ©2022
Physical description: 241 pages ; 25 cm
Content type: text txt
Media type: unmediated n
Carrier type: volume nc
Personal subject: Dele (Fictitious character from Obaro)--Fiction.
Personal subject: Destiny Fictitious character from Obaro)--Fiction.
Subject term: Female friendship--Fiction.
Subject term: Weddings--Fiction.
Subject term: Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Subject term: Nigerians--Fiction.
Subject term: Amitié--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Subject term: Noces--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Genre index term: Domestic fiction.
Genre index term: Romance fiction.
Genre index term: Novels.
General Note: Remainder of title from cover.
Summary: "Funmi, Enitan, and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences. Funmi is beautiful, brash, and determined; Enitan is homely and eager, seeking escape from her single mother's smothering and needy love; Zainab is elegant and reserved, raised by her father's first two wives after her mother's death in childbirth. Their friendship is complicated but enduring, and over the course of the novel, the reader learns about their loves and losses. How Funmi stole Zainab's boyfriend and became pregnant, only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence. How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer, the only one who ever really saw her, but is culturally so different from him--a Connecticut WASP--that raising their daughter together put them at odds. How Zainab fell in love with her teacher, a friend of her father's, and ruptured her relationship with her father to have him. Now, some thirty years later, the three women are reunited for the first time, in Lagos. The occasion: Funmi's daughter, Destiny, is getting married. Enitan brings her American daughter, Remi. Zainab travels by bus, nervously leaving her ailing husband in the care of their son. Funmi, hosting the weekend with her wealthy husband, wants everything to go perfectly. But as the big day approaches, it becomes clear that something is not right. As the novel builds powerfully, the complexities of the mothers' friendship--and the private wisdom each has earned--come to bear on a riveting, heartrending moment of decision. Dele Weds Destiny is a sensational debut from a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction."--Front jacket flap.
ISBN: 9780593320297 (hardcover)
ISBN: 0593320298 (hardcover)
ISBN: (ISBN invalid)9780593320303 (ebook)
key: 9979958
LCCN: 2021036833