Nnedi’s Reviews > Water Baby > Status Update

The exploration of grief is one redeeming aspect of this book - it’s also realistic with Nigerian culture/parenting - so much goes unsaid, and I can’t imagine the weight of losing both wife and son so close together for Baby’s father

Samson’s story line is a bit perplexing because how have we gone from him being someone her father suspects she likes to him being selected to accompany her on a trip to Switzerland?

first pace change in this book - discovering Charlie boy is actually dead. I found the reveal backstory slightly off putting with phrases like “coconut head” and “conked” - like isn’t this a painful memory for Baby?
I also don’t get Baby’s use of British English and grammar one minute and switching to incomplete/implausible Nigerian vernacular in the next.