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A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The story of three onceinseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty yearsa sparkling novel about the extraordinary resilience of female friendship

A story rendered with so much heartTaylor Jenkins Reid bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six

Funmi Enitan and Zainab first meet at university in Nigeria and become friends for life despite their differences Funmi is beautiful brash and determined Enitan is homely and eager seeking escape from her single mothers smothering and needylove Zainab is elegant and reserved raised by her fathers first two wives after her mothers death in childbirth

Their friendship is complicated but enduring and over the course of the novel the reader learns about their loves and losses How Funmi stole Zainabs boyfriend and became pregnant only to have an abortion and lose the boyfriend to police violence How Enitan was seduced by an American Peace Corps volunteer the only one who ever really saw her but is culturally so different from hima Connecticut WASPthat raising their daughter together put them at odds How Zainab fell in love with her teacher a friend of her fathers and ruptured her relationship with her father to have him

Now some thirty years later the three women are reunited for the first time in Lagos The occasion Funmis daughter Destiny is getting married Enitan brings her American daughter Remi Zainab travels by bus nervously leaving her ailing husband in the care of their son Funmi hosting the weekend with her wealthy husband wants everything to go perfectly But as the big day approaches it becomes clear that something is not right As the novel builds powerfully the complexities of the mothers friendshipand the private wisdom each has earnedcome to bear on a riveting heartrending moment of decision Dele Weds Destiny is a sensational debut from a dazzling new voice in contemporary fiction