Everything Good Will Come

Sefi Atta · 2005 CE · Novel · Nigerian · Contemporary

Enitan Taiwo grows up in Lagos from the 1970s, the daughter of a lawyer, through a friendship with the wilful Sheri and the successive military governments that shape their lives. As a woman she must decide what she will accept from marriage, from family and from a country run by men with guns. Atta's debut novel, it won the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

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