OGADINMA OR EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT: MY REVIEW

I found this book on the streets of Instagram sitting pretty on my IG feed and the creator who posted it, whose name I have forgotten but their caption I can vividly remember - "This book traumatized me, at some point I couldn't find the strength to control my tears."

Ahhh!

Tears? a book powerful enough to evoke such emotion of strong sadness to the point of tearing up their reader, is something I must read. As a writer myself, I found it as a healthy habit to read and also constructively criticize the books I have read, it is not for personal gratification, it is just a writer's thing, ask around they will tell you.

OGADINMA OR, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALL RIGHT

This book has its settings in late '90s after the war and just like every other book that has such similar settings, we have a relative who is missing but somehow that is not the plot of the story. The book centers around a young teenager age 17, her name which you might have already guessed, Ogadinma.

Ogadinma had one dream and it was to make her father proud by going to school, not just any school but one of the best, the east has to offer. Her dream was short lived when she did not gain her admission and things went tragic from there.

I wouldn't say she was handed over to her husband, whose name is Tobe - I saw their romantic side play out in the right way, the book being a narrative POV Ogadinma as the narrator, she did not fail to properly narrate her feelings towards Tobe, her husband.

I am sure your thinking out loud, "she loved her husband, what could possibly go wrong?"

 

Everything that could go wrong when a woman who did not go to the university and ends up marrying a man to wipe shame from the eyelids of her father, went wrong.

Like I said; this is my review, not a spoiler of the book for those who wish to read but haven't read. You can take home some lessons from the book, staying true to yourself is one of them. Ogadinma herself became faceless, a shadow of herself and not a good ending for the character. All her experiences broke her to bits, bits she could not gather and remained lost.

This book gives a tip of the ice berg sighting to what our mothers might have experienced in the past, despite the modernization if we look deeper, we still have a  lot of people who shares a similar experience or even worse when compared to the life of Ogadinma.

It is certainly not in my place to leave a rating, the book is a good one and a good read too, as for the tears part, I was disappointed to have been baited to reading the book with such expectations. If there was any emotion I felt, it was solid anger and bitterness towards the people she called her family. I am sure you are itching to hear the full story, this is your sign to go and read the book.

Certainly, I am a lover of literature and fictional stories, what review would you like to see next?

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