A Kind of Madness

Author: Okonkwo, Uche

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 28 January 2025 by Verve Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 224 pages
198 x 129 | 0g

A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everyday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection.

Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more. Brimming with vitality, these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more.