"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the
metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is
compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as
Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with
accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with." - Emmanuel
Iduma, editor, Saraba Magazine. A grandmother with a food-induced
encounter, an ecclesial romance with a tomcat set in the throes of
uncertain times, eating and drinking for freedom, wife battery
under the watchful eyes of communal love, desperately seeking
lovers burdened by violent pasts, and a woman taking liberty after
nine children with nine husbands are some of the characters and
stories in Antoinette Tidjani Alou's debut fiction collection. In
fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes
explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we
yearn to tie around ourselves: familial, spousal, parental,
professional, and societal. It tackles how we struggle in
relationships for nourishment and fulfilment, and how relationships
could kill us and how we could kill to survive - a potent force for
understanding humanity and the nuances of acts of violence,
tolerance, faith and love. Jamaican-born Antoinette Tidjani Alou
teaches French and Comparative Literature at the Universite Abdou
Moumouni de Niamey in Niger, where she has lived for more than two
decades. She writes in English and in French, covering
life-writing, poetry and short stories.
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