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Things They Lost
By : Okwiri Oduor
DESCRIPTION : Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture ?Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,? this astonishing debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother ?brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism? (The New York Times).Ayosa is a wandering spirit?joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother?s crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a caf? no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning. Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the