Igharo, Jane
Summary: "When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets an over-the-top family, a new love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn't know were missing in this engrossing novel from Jane Igharo, the acclaimed author of Ties That Tether. Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IGHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IGHGalgut, Damon
Summary: "A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GalgutSofer, Dalia
Summary: "Set in Iran and New York City, Man of My Time tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOFBrandenburg, Lauren H.
Summary: "We all need to know what's missing in our lives. At a funeral people describe everything a person has accomplished in their life, but what if they missed something? What if there was one thing they never got to do? And what if they had a chance to go back and do it?" The Blackwells are a family with an astounding history and traditions, which include holding their funerals before they die!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lion Hudson Limited 2019