The Unfortunates
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'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN
'A playful, powerful debut' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS
A RAZOR-SHARP NOVEL FROM AN UTTERLY UNIQUE NEW VOICE.A lot is happening to Me. Will Me survive?
Sahara is a student at one of the most elite universities in America โ and she is Not Okay. Her grades are subpar, sheโs not Nigerian enough for her family, and her long-term Life Partner* is threatening to take over. When sheโs not contemplating killing herself or the wealthy white students around her, sheโs receiving an increasing number of โUnfortunate Newsโ emails, which inform her that the few Black classmates she has are disappearing.
Will Sahara end up joining the ranks of โThe Unfortunatesโ, or can she avoid becoming yet another statistic?
Written in the style of a thesis, J K Chukwuโs highly original debut is a darkly funny and biting take on the campus novel, set in the mind of a young Black woman who is losing hers.
*depression
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J K Chukwu is a writer and visual artist from the Midwest. She holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and was a 2019 Lambda Fellow. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, DIAGRAM, and TAYO
