Damilare Kuku

Aug 1, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Damilare Kuku |Bill Roorbach |janie Kim |Jamie Brenner

Home Readers Current Issue Past Issues Pre-Orders Book Trade Subscribe Login We bet there's a belly laugh or two waiting for you in one of the stellar titles reviewed in today's issue. Is it in Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku, the "sharply insightful, bitingly funny, wondrously poignant" story of a woman's search for true love and acceptance through cosmetic surgery?

Apr 5, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Damilare Kuku |Charlie Stephens |Gina Chung |Allison Pataki

In this week's newsletter, we review Nigerian author Damilare Kuku's debut, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, a story collection featuring a dozen "rollicking, riotous stories" of "mad men and women getting out--and even," as well as Swedish novelist Lina Wolff's "magnetic fever dream" The Devil's Grip, a fast-paced story about "a woman pushed to the edge of sanity." Plus, we look at the "empowering picture book" Piper Chen Sings by Phillipa Soo, the award-winning performer who originated...