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02514aam a2200385 i 4500 001 1BC268C478F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 210617t20212021sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1485904153 020 $a 9781485904151 035 $a (OCoLC)1256821354 040 $a EEM $b eng $e rda $c EEM $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f-nr--- 050 4 $a PR9387.9.B46 $b M33 2021 100 1 $a Benson, T. J., $e author. 245 14 $a The mad house / $c T.J. Benson. 246 30 $a Madhouse 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Penguin Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 269 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The house at the end of Freetown Street in Nigeria's Sabon Gari was once a sanatorium for colonists deranged from the heat and insanity of the place. Now it is home to a family whose unorthodox lives unfold into legend: Sweet Mother, an artist, her husband Shariff, a writer and soldier, and their children AndreÌ and Max. From the moment his baby brother AndreÌ is born, Max attaches himself to him, even dreaming the boy's homicidal dreams. When the wayward AndreÌ later pulls free from the family to join a death cult, Max must decide how far he will be drawn into his brother's web. Serene and beautiful, Ladidi joins the family as a foster child, promising to marry the boy at school who can bring her a strawberry, a fruit she has never tasted. Sensuality blooms, along with loss of innocence amid the death of music legend Fela Kuti, massacres, disappearances, abductions and broken promises. While Sweet Mother and Shariff battle their personal demons, Max realises you cannot save your family. But can you ever escape them? In his exhilerating debut, TJ Benson conjures up a kaleidescope of Nigeria. This is the extraordinary tale of five people bound by blood, each searching for a way through."--Page 4 of cover. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Families $z Nigeria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728849 650 7 $a Nigerian fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037596 651 0 $a Nigeria $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Nigeria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205229 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BC268C478F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search