Everything Good Will Come

By Sefi Atta

Now a classic of world literature, this beautifully written, funny and piercingly honest story of a contemporary Yoruba woman’s coming-of-age in Lagos is a heartfelt drama of family, friendship, community and divided loyalties. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule. The politics of the state matter less to eleven-year-old Enitan than whether her mother, now deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, will allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare.Everything Good Will Come charts the unusual friendship and fate of these two girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it. Enitan’s is the story of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. She sees the poverty and knows about the brutal military dictatorship but it is not until politics invades her own family that she defies her husband and moves from bystander to activist. She bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire that is too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom—her desire for a child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Myriad Editions
• Release date: Aug 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781912408535

Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta is the author of two previous novels, Swallow and Everything Good Will Come, and a collection of short stories, News from Home. She has been awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa. Her novels have been published around the world and translated into numerous languages, and her radio and stage plays have been performed internationally. She was born in Lagos and now lives in the United States.

Reviews for Everything Good Will Come

[Ukeme Udonsah · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Sefi Attah's everything Good will come , captured my attention from the start to finish. It is a beautiful piece of Literature, maybe an historical fiction told however you put it, it is a Nigerian story told, in many ways the book reminded me of my childhood experiences, growing up in Nigeria during the military regime, it opens readers up to what it feels like being a Nigerian, how the struggle experienced by the upper class , middle class and lower class still traces down to the root of a nation's social and political Systems. Family is fundamental, inspite of who they are, family is family! I enjoyed this book and will definitely be making a review of it on my YouTube channel PAGES Highlights where I discuss about books.