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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

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Occasionally too serious. Occasionally too flippant. Stoned on words and stories, witches and sirens. Author. Journalist. Columnist. Mischief maker.

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This October, we’re reading Season of Crimson Blossoms by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, an award-winning novel about forbidden love, grief, and the courage to reclaim a part of yourself you thought you had buried.

At 55, Binta Zubairu is a widow who has spent decades living by the expectations placed on her. Reza, a 25-year-old street tough, is the last person anyone would expect her to fall for. Yet, between them, an unlikely affair unfolds, offering tenderness and intimacy while putting their families, reputations, and lives at risk.

Set in conservative Northern Nigeria, this bold and heartbreaking story asks difficult questions about desire, age, morality, and what happens when a woman dares to want something for herself.

Can love survive when the world refuses to accept it?

Have you read Season of Crimson Blossoms? Tell us what you thought in the comments. If you haven’t, consider this your invitation to join us!

#BookAfrique #BookOfTheMonth #SeasonOfCrimsonBlossoms #AfricanLiterature #BookCommunity by @abubakarwrites

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In Tuco Remires’s voice: “Nine days.” by @abubakarwrites

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Damage will have you feeling every emotion 😂

When Nasrin Amin casts her first vote on June 12, 1993, she believes a new dawn is breaking for her country and for her heart. But decades later, the scars of one brutal night return to haunt her and her children. Mustapha, the rational dreamer; Suraj, the hot-headed soldier-in-waiting; and Zubaida, the sharp-eyed chronicler of family secrets, are all drawn into a dangerous reckoning with the man who embodies both their nation’s brutality and their mother’s deepest wound.

Colonel Jarumai has spent his life burying memories of what he has done. For Nasrin, silence has been survival. But when her sons plot vengeance and her daughter demands truth, the past can no longer stay buried.

Spanning the euphoric promise of democracy to the suffocating grip of dictatorship, Damage asks what justice looks like when silence has already stolen so much. It is a story about the cost of memory, the inheritance of pain, and the fragile hope that love might endure even after everything else is broken.

PRICE: N15,000 Only

Release Date is October 20

Available at thebookblissonline.com(Link in bio)

#abujabookstore #bookstoreinnigeria #nigerianbookrecommendations #bookishmeme #abujabooklovers by @abubakarwrites

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Excited to be speaking at the Indy-Africa Festival in Indianapolis. First time in that city and so looking forward to it. by @abubakarwrites

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Somethings are not meant for the streets. Some moments and memories are meant to be enjoyed, not to be performed for social media audience. by @abubakarwrites

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I am reading and loving Leye Adenle’s exciting crime fiction novel, Fall from Grace, just released by Simon and Schuster. Leye writes crime fiction like a maestro, I swear. Highly recommend.

What are you reading? by @abubakarwrites

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I am reading and loving @leyeadenle’s exciting crime fiction novel, Fall from Grace, just released by Simon and Schuster. Leye writes crime fiction like a maestro, I swear. Highly recommend.
What are you reading? by @abubakarwrites

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Who is ready for this? by @abubakarwrites

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Dije in the SEASON OF CRIMSON BLOSSOMS 😍 by @abubakarwrites

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You can now pre-order 'Damage', the latest masterpiece by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. Just slide into our DMs to be among the very first to snag a copy. Published by Masobe Books, it's sure to be this year's literary juggernaut. We've already read it, and it's gripping, powerful, and beautifully written, of course. We're tempted to drop spoilers, but we won't. We'll wait for everyone else to catch up on the 20th of October. We can't wait!
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#AbubakarAdamIbrahim #Damage #Masobe #SpineAndLabelBooks #AbujaBookstore taken in Abuja, Nigeria by @abubakarwrites

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It’s all about size. by @abubakarwrites

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