Chigozie Obioma’s debut work of fiction, The Fishermen,
Chigozie Obioma’s is a work of muscular industry and prodigy, and it is
also an incredibly frustrating book, more on that later. Obioma is one
powerful storyteller. In this book, things fall apart in the worst
possible way, over and over again for a Nigerian family of eight, with
the first four sons the chief protagonists in this story from hell. This
unusual book documents the family’s free fall into one grim tragedy
after the other. This family is a country song, a sad country song. The Fishermen
is a powerful and tragic coming of age book and Obioma writes as if he
is looking through hell’s windows. As an aside, Obioma is incredibly
well-read, his vocabulary is intimidating; that alone is enough reason
to buy the book, your SAT scores will soar.
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