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.
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 -- <b>Raven Leilani, author of <i>Luster</i></b> 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 -- <b>Hanif Abdurraqib, author of <i>A Little Devil in America</i></b> 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' -- <b>Jami Attenberg, author of <i>All This Could Be Yours</i></b>