A. Igoni Barrett

Biography

A. Igoni Barrett is the author of the novel Blackass (Graywolf, 2016) and the short-story collection Love is Power, or Something Like That (Graywolf, 2013). Born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, he now lives in Lagos.

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FICTION / Summer 2020

Everything Splashes and Sinks

By A. Igoni Barrett ,  Illustrations by Aya Kakeda

He lost his religion in church. Twelve years old and Nimi knew there was no God. His mother had left them by then, just like his father, though she had left for a better reason.