Necessary Fiction

‘Necessary Fiction's Nigerians are inseparable from Nigeria itself: brazen, willful, sexy, dynamic, explosive. They love hard, fight fierce, and love fiercer. When life has risk at every turn, family is chosen, and love is on the edge of the knife, fiction indeed becomes necessary’ Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings

‘A glorious, ambitious portrait of queer lives in Nigeria. A vital work for our times’ Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch

'Singular … a vision of how kinship might evolve for everyone in a world of increasing mobility, urbanization, and atomization … In Necessary Fiction … we can glimpse the kind of community the internet once promised' The Atlantic

‘Unabashedly queer, complicated and occasionally outright hopeful, Necessary Fiction finds in its host of characters the grace of found families and how they help outsiders survive’ NPR

'Layered and digressive … both deeply earnest and unique'Vulture, ‘7 New Books You Should Read In July’

‘Necessary Fiction lives up to its title and beyond – a luminous mirror hall, a prism refracting human need and want, generational patterns and heart work and chosen family carved from the city’s chaotic sprawl’ Yrsa Daley-Ward, author of The Terrible

‘Osunde writes with the cataclysmic dazzle and sneaky spiritual ache of Denis Johnson, but pitches it toward us here in the digital age … The ink practically hovers off the page’ Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!

‘Exquisite and excruciating … With elegant, lean, searing language, Eloghosa Osunde reminds us what it really means to be alive’ Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes The Sun

‘A homage to the chosen family who accept you as you are and support you on the journey to becoming who you want to be’ Dean Atta, author of I Can’t Even Think Straight

‘Honest, gripping, and alive … Osunde’s writing shines … It’s not just beautiful – it’s transformative’ Bassey Ikpi, author of I’m Telling the Truth But I’m Lying