Vagabonds!

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“If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” — Los Angeles Times Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly , Vulture , Harper's Bazaar , Buzzfeed, Ms. Magazine , Lit Hub, The Millions, and Electric Literature In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched