Itoro Bassey’s debut novel is a different kind of immigrant story
What is the cost of charting your own path and seeking answers to heal age-old family wounds?
From Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, to Adichie’s Americanah, to Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, there is no scarcity of books dwelling on the African immigrant experience. However, none of them appears to be quite like Itoro Bassey’s Faith. Perhaps this uniqueness stems f…




