Many thanks to NetGalley and Viking/Penguin | Pamela Dorman Books for gifting me a digital ARC of this debut novel by Tolani Akinola. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 4.5 stars!
Four siblings - each with their own issues - find themselves around their parents' Thanksgiving table for the first time in years. They are all products of their Nigerian parents' American dreams for them, and each feels they have failed in different ways. Sola was kicked out of the house years ago; Angola is a Yale grad in love with her best friend, who is engaged to someone else; only sone Ole is struggling in his marriage and impending fatherhood; and youngest daughter, Karen, is struggling with her chosen college path and sexuality.
This novel is an emotional look at a dysfunctional family - and aren't all families dysfunctional in their own way? What I liked about this novel is that it's told from the siblings different POV, so we get different looks at the same event, depending on who's telling the story. There is a lot to unpack in everyone's story, overlooked by even close siblings, as they try and reunite.
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