Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel
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“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
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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Lizzie Damilola Blackburn. (2022). Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel. Penguin Publishing Group.
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“Feel good, funny, and clever, it’s got smash-hit written all over it!” –Josie Silver, New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December
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! - reviews
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A 31-year-old British Nigerian Oxford graduate is driven bonkers by the quest to find a man and a job on a very tight schedule. Her younger sister is already married and pregnant, her best friend is engaged, her other best friend is becoming more of a frenemy, and her mother and aunties are "praying over her love life as if [she's] terminally ill." Poor Yinka is losing it. Instead of the promotion she expected at work, she's made redundant but has bragged so much about the move up that she's too embarrassed to tell anyone the truth. When pressured by her posse to set a "bridesmaid goal," she vows to get a date for the wedding (and, secretly, to get a job, before people find out the truth). Debut novelist Blackburn enlivens her account of Yinka's frantic quest by interspersing Google search histories, text conversations, and a series of flip charts with neon Post-it messages and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) plotting out OPERATION WEDDING DATE: MY PLAN TO WIN ALEX AND HAVE A DATE FOR RACHEL'S WEDDING IN JULY!!! "Be more in touch with Nigerian culture"; "Learn a few Yoruba words"; "Increase my bum size by eating more pounded yam and doing 50 squats daily" are among the tasks she sets for herself--but since she knows this whole thing makes her look crazy, she keeps her "operation" a secret, too. Meanwhile, disappointments keep piling up as well as anxieties due to colorism, texturism, and Yinka's commitment to remain a virgin until her wedding day. After the Alex plan crashes and burns and she blows off the nerdy guy at church who clearly cares for her, only to see him pair up with a young hottie, things go seriously south in the mental health department. A liberal salting of patois--"Duh yuh waah your ier dun?" "Abeg. Give her a discount, ehn?"--and the deployment of comic Nigerian types (her mother, the aunties, the other members of her church) firmly root this novel in a community depicted with warmth and humor. A sassy, spirited story.COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Yinka Oladeji is proud of the successful and happy life that she's made for herself, but the women of her sprawling British-Nigerian family only see an unmarried woman. Her younger sister, Kemi, is married and expecting her first child, and her friend Rachel is newly engaged, further intensifying the pressure to settle down. But there are no good prospects on the horizon. Ever goal-oriented, Yinka devises a plan to have a date for Rachel's wedding, using the project management skills she's developed at work. This means allowing herself to be fixed up with eligible young men, dipping her toes into online dating, and learning how to set boundaries with both the men she dates and with her family. Blackburn's debut is a laugh-out-loud story of self-discovery, set against the world of contemporary dating. Yinka cleverly navigates others' competing expectations of who she should be, figuring out who she is in the process. Fans of Uzma Jalaluddin and Sonya Lalli will delight in this story of a one of a kind woman learning how to love one of the most important people in her life: herself.COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Blackburn’s comical debut chronicles a Nigerian British woman’s quest to find a date for her cousin’s wedding. The title’s question is lobbed at 31-year-old Yinka Oladeji by overbearing and traditionally minded people such as her mum and aunt Debbie whenever they see her. At her younger sister Kemi’s baby shower, Debbie unfavorably compares Oxford-educated Yinka to her cousin Ola, who dropped out of university for a “shotgun wedding.” Then, at an engagement party for another cousin, Rachel, Yinka meets her ex’s new fiancée. Afterward, she treats getting a date to Rachel’s wedding like a project, but worries that her dark skin and Pentacostal Christian faith might doom her to spinsterhood. After being laid off from her investment banking job instead of getting the promotion she wanted, Yinka checks in with a charity where she once volunteered and reconnects with the annoyingly contrary but handsome Donovan. Once her friends notice Yinka’s attempts to appeal to men, such as getting a weave, they stage an intervention to encourage her to remain true to herself. Blackburn’s lighthearted tone helps deliver heavy thoughts on colorism, the tension of cultural differences, and the benefits of therapy, as the story moves toward a happy ending on all fronts. This delivers loads of entertainment and a dollop of enlightenment.
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DEBUT Blackburn's Bridget Jones-esque debut is a sensitive, humorous chronicle of a young woman's journey of self-discovery. Thirtysomething Nigerian British Yinka is trying to get her life together. Her large, religious Nigerian family desperately wants to see her married off to a nice young man. After a public prayer for her singlehood at her sister's baby shower, Yinka decides to make it her mission to find a mate. But then she's "made redundant" at the bank where she works and discovers her cousin Rachel is getting married. Now Yinka is in the middle of a crisis. The narrative shifts when Yinka reconnects with an old friend from college and starts volunteering with his homeless outreach organization. Donovan helps Yinka start to make sense of some of her emotional issues and tries to assist her with a new career path. This universal story of a young woman coming into her own contains many elements of Nigerian culture. VERDICT Readers who like the novels of Marian Keyes and Cecelia Ahern will find much to enjoy here.--Kristen Stewart
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