{"product_id":"9780008708658","title":"Necessary Fiction","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Osunde, Eloghosa\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eOf specific Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian interest\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 30 July 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e198 x 129 | 270g\u003cp\u003e‘A vital work for our times’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Radical, gorgeous … a queer love song, honouring chosen family’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBIG ISSUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Beautiful … this is prose worth spending time with’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARIE CLAIRE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A gorgeously deeply humane book’ NICOLE DENNIS-BENN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A vivid, stirring revolution’ YRSA DALEY-WARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘The ink practically hovers off the page’ KAVEH AKBAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What makes a family? How is it defined and by whom?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Across Lagos, a rolling cast of unforgettable characters seek out love in all its forms, daring to push all other relationships – with partners, relatives and friends – to the brink in the process. Stubbornly alive and brazenly flawed, they work to establish themselves in the worlds of art, music, entertainment and creativity in the city, all while reckoning with desire, fear, death and God. To build a queer community, they must all grapple with the necessary fictions that they carry for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Both deeply earnest and unique’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e VULTURE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Osunde is brilliant at character, giving the cast rich, knotty backstories that unfold in bursts of revelation’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e TLS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive’ MARLON JAMES, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Osunde’s writing shines … It’s not just beautiful – it’s transformative’ BASSEY IKPI, author of I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Osunde, Eloghosa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578438148280,"sku":"9780008708658","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780008708658.jpg?v=1781107407","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780008708658","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}