Indigo

The arrival of a second wife causes a woman to reassess her marriage… Another faces up to tough choices in the wake of a military coup… A heroine from history lights the path for a modern girl on the road to Jenwi… A picture on a wall tells its own poignant story of sacrifice… A former cultist must confront an unspoken secret in his family…
From Nigeria to the Diaspora, joy, sadness, anxieties and triumphs fill the canvas with lush, vivid colours. Themes of loss and longing, past and present, home and away, mysticism and modernity, trauma and healing, truth and lies, masculinity and a woman?s place ? all are deftly explored in this mesmerising, sometimes devastating collection of short stories.

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“These stories announce a strong, distinctive voice, powered in equal measure by love and rage. They offer perspectives on life in all its messy multiplicity, mythical and real. Molara Wood writes with admirable sensitivity; her characters are a healthy mixture of the self-aware, the compassionate, the innocent, and the worldly-wise; and the variety itself is proof of a mastery of complex emotions. I read these stories with a genuine sense of gratitude.”

– AKIN ADESOKAN, Author of Roots in the Sky.
“In this stunning collection, colourful characters speak triumphantly of the enigma and beauty that is Africa. Indigo is a lovely metaphor for the collage of stories lovingly spun together. The tapestry is beautiful, warm, and comforting. These are stories rendered in a griot?s voice, just as the storytellers of old would have told them.”

– IKHIDE IKHELOA, Writer and Critic.
“In Indigo is sedulous craft and daring that sets Molara Wood apart in the genre of short stories. Indigo is a first collection that never reads like one. It is, at once, all-efflorescence and all-flourish.”

– TADE IPADEOLA, author of The Sahara Testaments.