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A. Igoni Barrett

A. Igoni Barrett is the author of the novel Blackass (Graywolf, 2016) and the short-story collection Love is Power, or Something Like That (Graywolf, 2013). Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, he now lives in Lagos.

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Everything Splashes and Sinks

Summer 2020 | Fiction

He lost his religion in church. Twelve years old and Nimi knew there was no God. His mother had left them by then, just like his father, though she had left for a better reason.