
Olufunke Grace Bankole - The Edge of Water
Olufunke Grace Bankole – The Edge of Water
In an immigration novel not like others, a Nigerian daughter wants to try life in America, and so once more she enters the visa sweepstakes. Her mother says nothing, though she has been forewarned by a conduit of the oracle, “this time, the order of things will be shaken. The souls will lose their own way.” These are the tensions within Olfunke Grace Bankole’s first novel, The Edge of Water.
There are matters here of faith in self and faith in matters larger than the self, as well as events that outstrip all planning and vision—including the failure…
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