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Wahala : a novel
- Title
- Wahala : a novel / Nikki May.
- Author
- May, Nikki
- Publication
- [New York, New York] : Custom House, [2022]
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 23-421 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-1816 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 375 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha"--
- Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo has everything Ronke wants--a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be. Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle. No one knows she's crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her "urban vibe." Her husband thinks they're trying for a baby. She's not. When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into the group, it seems at first she's bringing out the best in each woman. (She gets Simi an interview in Hong Kong! Goes jogging with Boo!) But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows, and Ronke, Simi, and Boo's close friendship begins to crack.
- Subject
- Female friendship > Fiction
- Young women > Fiction
- Nigerians > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction
- Nigerians > England > London > Fiction
- Young women
- Nigerians
- Interpersonal relations
- Female friendship
- Friendship > Fiction
- Women's friendships
- Friendships
- Homosociality
- London (England) > Fiction
- England > London
- Nigeria
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- First published in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1816
- ISBN
- 9780063084247
- 0063084244
- 9780063084254
- 0063084252
- LCCN
- 2021045386
- OCLC
- 1246225396
- Author
- May, Nikki, author.
- Title
- Wahala : a novel / Nikki May.
- Publisher
- [New York, New York] : Custom House, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1816Sc E 23-421