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From the bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and ‘queen of the banging book title’ comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.
Fresh out of university, 20-year-old Témì has a clear plan for her future: she is going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man who will love her senseless. When she finally finds the courage to tell her mother, older sister, and aunties, at the funeral of her beloved father, her announcement causes an uproar – because in Nigerian families, none of your business is private. Not even if it’s about your bumbum.
But as each of the other women try to cure Témì of what they consider to be insanity, the long-buried secrets that bind and separate them are spilled in the process. In the end, it seems like Témì might be the sanest one sha…
In Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku brings her signature humour, boldness, and compassion to each member of this loveable but exasperating family, whose lives reveal the ways in which a woman’s physical appearance can dictate her life and relationships and showing just how sharp the double-edged sword of beauty can be.
From the bestselling author of Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad, and ‘queen of the banging book title’ comes a powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgemental aunties, and Brazilian butt lifts.
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