{"product_id":"the-edge-of-water-tr-by-olufunke-grace-bankole","title":"The Edge of Water TR by Olufunke Grace Bankole","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eTin House\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2025-02-04)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e272\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781963108057\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e283.5\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e21.59 x 13.97 x 1.8\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Westport Prize for Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Oprah Daily Best Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Apple Books Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Goodreads Hottest Debut of February\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlta Journal and Debutiful Best Book of February\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads, Southern California Newsgroup, Debutiful, Washington Independent Review of Books \u0026amp; The Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet between Nigeria and New Orleans, \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Water\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Ibadan, Nigeria, a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America. In spite of this warning, she allows her to forge her own path, and Amina arrives in New Orleans filled with hope. But just as Amina begins to find her way, a hurricane threatens to destroy the city, upending everything she’d dreamed of and the lives of all she holds dear. Years later, her daughter is left with questions about the mother she barely knew, and the family she has yet to discover in Nigeria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the love of a determined mother and dreaming daughter who do not say enough to each other until it is too late, the detangling of Yoruba Christianity, traditional religion, and folklore, and the tellings of three generations of daring women—through times of longing, promise, and romance, as well as heartbreak—Olufunke Grace Bankole’s \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous debut novel about a young woman brave enough to leave all she knows behind, and the way her fate transforms a family destined to stay together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlufunke Grace Bankole\u003c\/b\u003e is a Nigerian American writer. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and a recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStand Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She won the first-place prize in the Glimmer Train Short-Story Award for New Writers, and was the Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, a residency-fellowship from the Anderson Center at Tower View, and has received a Pushcart Special Mention for her writing. 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