From the bestselling author of?Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad,?and queen of the banging book title comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.
Fresh out of university, 20-year-old Tm has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. When she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, at the funeral of her beloved father, her announcement causes an uproar because in Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if its about your bumbum.
But as each of the other women try to cure Tm of what they consider to be insanity, the long-buried secrets that bind and separate them are spilled in the process. In the end, it seems like Tm might be the sanest one sha
In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humour, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a womans physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and showing just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.
From the bestselling author of?Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad,?and queen of the banging book title comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.
Fresh out of university, 20-year-old Tm has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. When she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, at the funeral of her beloved father, her announcement causes an uproar because in Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if its about your bumbum.
But as each of the other women try to cure Tm of what they consider to be insanity, the long-buried secrets that bind and separate them are spilled in the process. In the end, it seems like Tm might be the sanest one sha
In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humour, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a womans physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and showing just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.
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