A Kind of Madness Audiobook

A searing unflinching collection of stories set in Nigeria that explores themes of community expectations familial strife and the struggle for survival

A teenage girl from a poor family is dazzled by her rich vivacious friend but as the friends behavior grows unstable and dangerous she must decide whether to cover for her or risk telling the truth to get her the help she needs A young woman and her mother bask in the envy of their neighbors when the woman receives an offer of marriage from the family of a doctor living in Belgiumthough when the offer fails to materialize that envy threatens to turn vicious pitting them both against their community And a lonely daughter finds herself wandering a village in eastern Nigeria in an illfated quest struggling to come to terms with her mothers mental illness

In ten vivid evocative stories set in contemporary Nigeria Uche Okonkwos A Kind of Madness unravels the tensions between mothers and daughters husbands and wives best friends siblings and more marking the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and inviting us all to consider the question why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness