
Fishing Boy
by L
About This Novel
When I think about our story and how our never-to-be-separated family was separated from that morning, I really wish-even twenty years later-that he had never left and never received that transfer notice. Until that announcement, everything was in order: my father left for work every morning, and my mother, who sold fresh food at an open-air market stall, took care of me and my five siblings. Like most children in Akure, we have to go to school. Everything goes as it should. We rarely think about the past... I will be a pilot, or the President of Nigeria, or a millionaire who can afford a helicopter - because the future is in our hands. The future is a blank canvas and anything is possible. However, my father's transfer to Iola changed everything: time, seasons, and the past became important, and we longed for the past even more than the present and the future.
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Official(2)Scraped 28d ago
I don't seem to know what he's talking about
Tragedies are always memorable, and this novel is no exception
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Official(2)Scraped 28d ago
I don't seem to know what he's talking about
Tragedies are always memorable, and this novel is no exception
