Black Sunday: A Novel - Hardcover

Tola Rotimi Abraham is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. She lives in Iowa City and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in journalism. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught writing at the University of Iowa. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Catapult, The Des Moines Register, The Nigerian Literary Magazine, and other places.

"Tola Rotimi Abraham’s sharp, captivating debut thrums with the energy of life itself. The story of a family and a city reeling from wounds both private and political, Black Sunday delivers unforgettable characters as they adapt to often cruel circumstances and fight to author their own futures. Abraham writes with such irresistible confidence and startling precision, I can’t wait to see what she does next." ―Mia Alvar, author of In the Country

"With stunning beauty and painful wisdom, Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday lays bare her characters’ deepest aches and desires in a voice that is as haunting as it is addictive." ―Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of The Revisioners and A Kind of Freedom

"In a fresh and fierce debut, Tola Rotimi Abraham proves that it's an act of indelible resistance every time a young woman tells her story. Through the eyes of a family at its brink, Abraham reveals the truth about violence, tenderness, and the disquiet in between. Black Sunday is a surprising switchblade of a novel." ―Amy Jo Burns, author of Cinderland and Shiner

"An assured and worthy debut, Black Sunday finds lyricism in the swell of everyday betrayal. In Abraham's hands, the coming-of-age novel mourns the easy perversion of sex, love, ambition, and faith, glimpsing, nevertheless, twin moments of grace and intimacy, daring and strength." ―Tracy O'Neill, author of The Hopeful and Quotients