Captive

<p><strong><em>Brittle Paper</em>'s "Anticipated African Books of 2024"</strong></p>
<p><strong>From Short Story Day Africa eleven writers from Africa and the African diaspora explore the identities that connect us the obsessions that bewitch us and the self-delusions that drive us apart.</strong></p>
<p>Passion and apathy creation and destruction honesty and deception-the blurred lines between these powerful forces are fundamental to the human condition. In three parts the writers of <em>Captive</em> investigate these liminal spaces and rail against the boxes in which others seek to confine them as writers as Africans and as humans.</p>
<p>Journey from the fantastical Heaven's Mouth where time stands still to a London bus where a neurodiverse woman steals love to the songs of Tom Jones . . . flip the page to Ghana to examine a fertility fetish or a post-apocalyptic Lesotho where sentient AI uses our emotions against us . . . visit the deceptively beautiful islands off the Tanzanian coast where the ocean is always hungry and women pay the price. <em>Captive</em> is a riot of imagination a collision of worlds and a testament to the shape-shifting nature of the soul.</p>