A KIND OF MADNESS

Why is it that the people and places we hold closest are so often the ones that drive us to madness?Set in Nigeria, A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten powerful short stories about desire, desperation, jealousy, hunger, and longing - feelings that when left unspoken, can feel like madness itself.Each story follows characters pushed to emotional extremes by the ones they love: a young woman whose promised marriage to a doctor abroad turns her neighbors' envy vicious, a poor teenage girl caught between loyalty and truth as her rich friend spirals, and a daughter wandering an eastern Nigerian village trying to understand her mother's mental illness.It is a sharp, tender exploration of mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, friends and siblings - and how love can quietly drive us mad.