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YEWANDE OMOTOSO was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria, moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. Trained as an Architect she is the author of Bom Boy (Modjaji Books, 2011) which won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist in the the inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize. Her second novel The Woman Next Door (Chatto and Windus, 2016) was longlisted for the Bailey's Women Prize and shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. An Unusual Grief (Cassava Republic, 2022) is Omotoso's third novel. Omotoso works as a Storytelling Advisor with Greenpeace International and lives in Johannesburg. ...more

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	The Woman Next Door 3.61 avg rating — 4,860 ratings — published 2016 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unusual Grief 3.70 avg rating — 385 ratings — published 2021 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bom Boy 3.49 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby (Editor), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patience Agbabi 4.25 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chris Brazier (Editor), Okwiri Oduor, Edwidge Danticat 3.66 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Joburg Noir by Niq Mhlongo (Editor), Sam Mathe (Contributor), Fred Khumalo (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	African Voices by Wanjiru Koinange (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Ndi’Aphrykah 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La veïna del costat by Yewande Omotoso (Goodreads Author), Àfrica Rubiés Mirabet (translator) 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Woman Next Door: A Novel by Yewande Omotoso (Goodreads Author), Adjoa Andoh (narrator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughters Who Become Lovers by Esther Mirembe (Editor ), Yewande Omotoso (Goodreads Author) (Foreword ), Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning.”
― Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

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“The pieces of a life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself.”
― Yewande Omotoso, An Unusual Grief

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“Night was the real measure of love, Hortensia thought. Anything can sparkle in the daylight. But night – that was when humanity got tested. It was always at night that she saw things between them were decrepit and ugly.”
― Yewande Omotoso, The Woman Next Door

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The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso

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