Loyalty and Third Place Books are delighted to welcome Arinze Ifeakandu and Jonathan Lee for God's Children are Little Broken Things! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice. You can also order the book on our website or from Third Place Books to be automatically added to the event's registration list. Donations will go to BLM DC. There will also be an option to snag the book during the event.

In nine exhilarating stories of queer love in contemporary Nigeria, God's Children Are Little Broken Things announces the arrival of a daring new voice in fiction.

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity.

Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria, and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. An AKO Caine Prize for African Writing finalist and A Public Space Writing Fellow, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in A Public Space, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, One Story, and Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things is his first book.

Jonathan Lee is a British-American novelist and TV writer living in New York. His latest novel The Great Mistake (Knopf) is just out in paperback.

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Arinze Ifeakandu and Jonathan Lee for GOD'S CHILDREN ARE LITTLE BROKEN THINGS