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Okwiri Oduor (born 1988/1989) is a Kenyan writer, who won the 2014 Caine Prize with her short story "My Father's Head". In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature, with her story "Rag Doll" being included in the subsequent anthology edited by Ellah Allfrey, Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara. ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 1,166 ratings · 241 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Things They Lost 3.69 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 2022 — 12 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
	Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (Editor), Wole Soyinka (Preface), Shadreck Chikoti 3.56 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 2014 — 13 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
	Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing by Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Helon Habila (contributor), Binyavanga Wainaina (contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories by Chris Brazier (Editor), Okwiri Oduor, Edwidge Danticat 3.66 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	My Father's Head 3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings	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
	Feast, Famine & Potluck by Karen Jennings (Editor), Rachel Zadok (Goodreads Author) (curator/editor), Katherine Graham (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Imagine Africa 2060 : Geschichten zur Zukunft eines Kontinents by Christa Morgenrath (Editor), Eva Wernecke (Editor), José Eduardo Agualusa 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	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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“She said that true love was just like this - sweet in some parts, sour in others. She said that deep love was vast and pure, but that it also got hateful in some of its corners where the sunlight did not touch. She said that you could not love without hating. And that you most certainly could not hate a person without loving them first.”
― Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost

tags: love, mothers-and-daughters

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“My love for you is deep, but even then, it's not always so. Sometimes my love for you is lukewarm at best. And sometimes I feel nothing for you. Nothing at all. I search inside myself for that hot, scalding love and it's not there anymore.”
― Okwiri Oduor, Things They Lost

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