A review by bookreviewswithkb
An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

is contemporary classic African fiction a genre? that’s what this is
highly recommend but know this is a dense, complex read told in a very unique way

it’s the tie ins of Igbo culture through storytelling, ancestral knowledge, spiritual traditions, language, religion, and proverbs. it’s taking a classic work of literature [the odyssey] and retelling it. it’s the foreshadowing. the pain, the desperate actions, the metaphors, the tragedy. and oh THE ENDING 😫😭

“All those who have been chained and beaten… who have been silenced, raped, shamed, and killed. With all these people, he’d come to share a common fate. They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”

it’s not a feel good story that’s for sure
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