Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Happiness, Like Water is a deeply affecting literary debut, the work of a sure and gifted new writer.'-Julie Otsuka 'A haunting and startlingly original collection of short stories about the lives of Nigerians both at home and in America. What a remarkable new talent.'-Chika Unigwe These powerful stories of contemporary Nigeria are told with compassion and a certain sense of humor. 'Okparanta's prose is tender, beautiful and evocative. I devoured these stories and immediately wanted more. 'Intricate, graceful prose propels Okparanta’s profoundly moving and illuminating book. Happiness, Like Waterintroduces a true talent, a young writer with a beautiful heart and a capacious imagination.

Here are stories filled with language to make your eyes pause and your throat catch.

Here is a portrait ofNigerians that is surprising, shocking, heartrending, loving, and across social strata, dealing in every kind of change. Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush landscapes, folktales, buses that break down and never start up again. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties.

Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Okparanta’s narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such lucidity and composure, that in each and every case the truths of their lives detonate deep inside the reader’s heart, with the power and force of revelation.'-Paul Harding

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