Dele Weds Destiny

A stunning novel of friendship, love and home

Tomi Obaro

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John Murray
28 June 2022

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DELE WEDS DESTINY is the heartfelt, vivid and sparkling debut novel by editor and writer Tomi Obaro, celebrating the resilience and power of long-lasting female friendship.

Enitan, Funmi and Zainab first meet during their politically turbulent university years in Lagos - a time which cements their friendship, as together they all slowly learn how to become themselves. But when Enitan heads to New York to elope with a white man, Zainab and Funmi are left behind, though with drastically different fortunes. Zainab finds herself the sole breadwinner for her disabled husband and their four sons, while Funmi, larger-than-life in her youth, lives in a palace of confined luxury as the wife of a shady, successful businessman.

Their friendship goes on to endure decades of distance and, thirty years later, they're finally reunited in Lagos for the wedding of Destiny, Funmi's daughter, in 2015. Here, after all this time, they will reflect on their pasts, the things they loved and lost - but the present brings unexpected surprises and they soon discover that their daughters might be just as rebellious and open-hearted as they once were.

A story of three women, over three decades, we witness the shared histories, betrayals and triumphs play out, and their unforgettable, enduring friendship.

By: Tomi Obaro
Imprint: John Murray
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781529366785
ISBN 10: 152936678X
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tomi Obaro is a Brooklyn-based writer and senior culture editor at BuzzFeed News. She writes cultural criticism, features, and personal essays which appear at BuzzFeed News, The Morning News, and The Toast. She can be found on Twitter (@TomiObaro) and on her personal website, tomiobaro.com. Dele Weds Destiny is her debut novel.

Reviews for Dele Weds Destiny: A stunning novel of friendship, love and home

Obaro writes beautifully about the complicated labor of friendship and parentage. Dele Weds Destiny explores caregiving as a kind of deferment, but also as discovery, of desire, of fury, of home -- Raven Leilani, author of Luster A generous and patient consideration of life, and of lives . . . I am so thankful for the world of this book, and so excited for everyone who gets to sit in it -- Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America A wonderful novel full of richly-drawn, complicated, nuanced characters all trying to love and connect with each other. An ode to the bonds of friendship across decades, Dele Weds Destiny is a marvelous debut' -- Jami Attenberg, author of All This Could Be Yours