![]() The protagonist of the story in the chapter is an itinerant Jehovah’s Witness. It is about a couple living on a street in Port Harcourt. Happiness, like water has ten chapters, 202 pages and one page of Acknowledgements.įrom the first chapter: On Ohaeto Street, you smell a simple, poetic literary discourse that is painstakingly entertaining and compulsive. This short novel was published in 2014 by Granta Paperback Publications of Addison Avenue, London, U.K. In it, Chinelo has distilled her experience into something crystalline, solid and luminous. This is a profoundly moving novel, lucid and elegant. High expectations consume them altogether. ![]() Indeed, there is a childless couple with very different desires, a university professor comforting a troubled student a mother seeking refuge from an abusive husband and a young woman waiting to join her lover abroad. ![]() In these exquisite short stories, Chinelo introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. ![]() HAPPINESS, Like Water, is an original and evocative book written by Chinelo Okparanta, one of Nigeria’s few women creative writers. ![]()
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