Things They Lost

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vogue and Vulture

"Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark," this astonishing literary debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother "brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism" (The New York Times).

Ayosa is a wandering spirit-joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, wh ...