Title: 29, Single & Nigerian
Author: Naijasinglegirl, Naijasinglegirl
Publisher: Harmony Publishing
Pages: 0
Date Read: 10 April 2018
Bookshelves: read
My Rating (out of 5): ⭐⭐⭐⭐
This is a book you want to read to gain an insight into the existential realities of Nigeria’s struggling middle class. 29, Single and Nigerian was written with a beautiful sense of urgency that many African novels lack. I loved the way the author did not bore the reader with needless pages of prose. Given how concise the book was, I kid you not when I say that one sentence less could have rendered this book incomplete. The only explanation for this brilliance is that the author had a character limit - one that ended with the very last period. And oh! It was very easy on the eyes; almost to a fault.
That said, I felt the story tapered out at the last couple of chapters. Especially when she found God and got serious with, Ifeanyi, the dude she had been ignoring for the better part of the book. i also had a problem with the book’s conclusion when i found out that the story was non-fiction. The fact that the author was narrating her story makes it almost needless to explore what could and what could not have been. There were holes in the plot but there is not much one can do after being reminded that these events actually happened in real life. The book ended too well; too easily. This book did not have me developing alternate endings and theories. The CONCLUSION was too CONCLUSIVE- a sad consequence of the book being a non-fiction.