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Olufunke Grace Bankole

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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Olufunke Grace Bankole is a Nigerian American writer and novelist. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and a recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train Stories, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Stand Magazine (UK), and elsewhere.

She won the first-place prize in the Glimmer Train Short-Story Award for New Writers, and was the Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, a residency-fellowship from the Anderson Center at Tower View, and has received a Pushcart Special Mention ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 855 ratings · 174 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Edge of Water 3.76 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 2025 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #80 by Geoff Wyss (Goodreads Author), Olufunke Grace Bankole (Goodreads Author), Ken Barris 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Olufunke Grace Bankole liked Shauna's review of The Edge of Water: "This was a beautifully written debut that explores identity, belonging, and the generational tension between expectation and desire. Through multiple perspectives and a deeply moving mother-daughter relationship, the story weaves Yoruba traditions wi" Read more of this review »
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Olufunke Grace Bankole liked Rhonda Lomazow's review of The Edge of Water: "Literary fiction at its best a beautiful debut novel a book set between Nigerian and New Orleans a book of a mother and daughter.From the opening pages I was completely engrossed hate to put it down perfect for book clubs.Thanks #tinhouse for my arc."
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Olufunke Grace Bankole and 1 other person liked Hayley's review of The Edge of Water: "This was a good book, it sucked me in right from the beginning. I liked all the different perspective’s. "
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“The fear of losing my mother is the shore upon which our bond has ebbed and flowed across the years.”
― Olufunke Grace Bankole, The Edge of Water

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