Godwin Ikechukwu Meniru

Come Home to Me: Love and Life in War Godwin Ikechukwu Meniru

Two military coups, murder and mayhem in the streets. Chike needs to run back East for protection but his wife, Yetunde balks; I am not Igbo, she declares, shakily. Will she reconsider her decision on time, before it becomes too late and angry mobs reach her family? What happens to this erstwhile happy Lagos couple? Will ethnicity politics do them in? What happens to Isabel the nanny, who is destined for more than what people see? How about the children? There are no easy answers here. Instead, betrayal, lust and trust battle it out as cultural norms fall and bullets fly with the advent of war. Machine guns spit death while MiG fighter-bomber planes shred the land. Who and what will remain when the acrid smoke of war clears?