Eloghosa Osunde recently shared on her Instagram handle the stunning cover design of her debut novel, Vagabonds! The cover was designed by Khari Turner whom Osunde.
Here is the synopsis of the novel:
“In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities.
Eloghosa Osunde’s brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms—vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city’s dark energy.
Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing their shadowselves, Osunde’s characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion.
Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! Is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph.”
Osunde, while revealing the cover design, said: “I took my time with these stories. I‘m proud of and will stand by them from start to finish. I trust that they know exactly where they’re going and why. I trust what I’ve done – something powerful – and also what I’ve learned: my imagination is mine, and holy.”
Osunde’s novel is coming out in March 15, and it would be released by Riverhead Books.
You can pre-order the book here here
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