Broken People's Playlist

<p><strong>A dozen interlinked music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt Nigeria where Garricks was raised... Each songlike story feels like a breakout hit encapsulating the brokenness and the beauty in life's soundtrack.--<em>Booklist</em> starred review</strong></p><p><strong>Beautifully woven . . . a magical delight.--Hari Kunzru author of <em>White Tears</em></strong></p><p><em>A Broken People's Playlist </em>is set to the soundtrack of life comprised of twelve music-inspired tales about love the human condition micro-moments and the search for meaning and sometimes redemption. It is also Chimeka Garricks's love letter to his native city Port Harcourt introducing us to a cast of indelible characters in these loosely interlocked tales.</p><p>There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart--who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife; a man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother; three friends who ponder penis captivus and one's peculiar erectile dysfunction; a troubled woman who tries to find her peace-place in the world helped by a headful of songs and a pot of ginger tea.</p><p>Infused with the author's resonant and evocative storytelling each page holds the depth of a novel (Hari Kunzru); a character a moment that will--like a favorite song--long linger in the heart and mind.</p>