A Tiny Place Called Happiness

by Bura-Bari Nwilo

This short story collection understands the narrative of the voiceless. It brings together the lives of dreamers and dreams from the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria-mostly, using experimental and diverse style to explore the human condition. The stories in the collection bring us to a homeland we do not see, and the writer, in turn, offers the narrated cough circumstances of his characters in tender words. Nwilo writes like an aspiration--his voice desires co cry many things and this is the reason we should heed this writer with many stories to tell.

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"Nwilo writes with a quiet and fiery validation of African Englishes, specifically a certain Nigerian English - how refreshing! This is exactly the sore of re-imaginative work chat lovers of African fiction have been awaiting. A Tiny Place Called Happiness is a triumph for orature in literature every where!": Donald Molosi, Author, We Are All Blue