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Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job and soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go and live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything.
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"Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2011 'A fascinating, poignant story that had me laughing in places and deeply moved in others’ IKE ANYA 'A must-read’ LESLEY LOKKO 'Christie Watson's debut novel, set in the troubled Niger Delta, does what fiction does best, it captures place and characters so well that you feel you are there…it deserves to be read' HELON HABILA, author of Oil on Water"
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