sema okoko🌸

ALT ‎My Agent's Guide to my book, titled: "For Single Vulnerable Girls and Lonely Married Women. ‎ ‎A Contemporary Literary Fiction (Currently Under Revisions).

ALT ‎Our love had been beautiful. How could he forget about it so easily? ‎ ‎The Pitch ‎When John, Ima’s secondary school sweetheart, abruptly ends their seven-year relationship, Ima is plagued by a new fear: loneliness. Then she meets Arinze, whose sweet devotion eases her fear and mends her broken heart. ‎But when he buries himself in work, Ima’s loneliness returns, pushing her to seek comfort in John, who ultimately ghosts her. ‎Spiralling in this cycle of neglect and self-destruction, Ima must confront the new story of her life: console herself with emotional affairs, or sit with the loneliness she’s been running from. ‎ ‎For Single Vulnerable Girls and Lonely Married Women combines the psychological depth and emotional candour of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women with Megan Nolan’s exploration of grief, identity loss, and self-destructive tendencies in Acts of Desperation. ‎An enjoyable book for readers looking for these stories in a Nigerian setting.

ALT ‎The Snippet I went numb with sadness when John didn’t message me. Then I left my castle and staggered into the home of madness—madness, as in crazy, delusional, unstable. ‎Inside that house, I saw a premonition of my life. ‎I saw minutes of waiting turn into days, weeks into months, and months into years. I saw myself running to check my phone for John’s messages, then walking to check, then throwing my phone away and sitting in silence, staring at something only that Ima could see. ‎From there, I saw myself fall into another black hole, and I woke up from my hibernation. ‎I loved John with everything in me, and I didn’t mind waiting forever, if that was how long it would take for him to come back to me, but I had to see the truth. I was the only one dying. ‎

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