Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
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Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?”
Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional (she’s saving herself for marriage!), her girlfriends think she needs to get over her ex already, and the men in her life…well, that’s a whole other story. But Yinka herself has always believed that true love will find her when the time is right.
Still, when her cousin gets engaged, Yinka commences Operation Find-A-Date for Rachel’s Wedding. Aided by a spreadsheet and her best friend, Yinka is determined to succeed. Will Yinka find herself a huzband? And what if the thing she really needs to find is herself?
Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? is a fresh, uplifting story of an unconventional heroine who bravely asks the questions we all have about love. Wry, moving, irresistible, this is a love story that makes you smile but also makes you think–and explores what it means to find your way between two cultures, both of which are yours.
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY MARIE CLAIRE, PARADE, ESSENCE, MS. MAGAZINE, POPSUGAR, BUSTLE, BOOKRIOT, DEBUTIFUL AND MORE!
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This was SOO good. The faith element, the family element, trying to change toxicity throughout the generations, the internal struggles, the WORK LIFE and pressure to be corporate. WOW. Overall an absolutely perfect novel that I could relate to on EVERY basis.
Parts of this book were fun and interesting, but the writing style of a lot of telling rather than showing wasn't for me. The story itself deals with some really important and often under-represented topics such as colourism, discrimination faced by Black women, and cultural expectations that can themselves be problematic, but the protagonist doesn't make much progress until the last 8th of the book. I also found the Christianity heavy handed.
CW: racism, colorism, body shaming, fatphobic comments, sexism, and death of loved one (past)
This is bOOK!! I don't even know where to start. I think I need a few days to think about what to say. But y'all I think I found my book boyfriend
