Nigerian author, Chika Unigwe, has a new novel coming out in 2022. The novel is titled, Leaving Meshach. The novel, according to an interview with The Punch, will be published by Dzanc Books in the United States in the fall of 2022. This is Chika’s eight book.
The novel is set in Enugu and partly in Atlanta, GA in the 2000s. It tells the story of Nani, “a vulnerable teenager who is lured in by a much older man, Meshach, a self-proclaimed Man of God,” and how she takes charge of her own life several years later.
The novel is described as “a loose adaptation of the myth of Hades and Persephone.”
You can read an excerpt from the novel here
Chika Unigwe teaches Creative Writing at Georgia College and State University. She is the author of the celebrated novel On Black Sister’s Street which won the NLNG Prize for Literature.
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