Description
A Broken People’s Playlist by Chimeka Garricks is an evocative collection of twelve interlinked short stories set against the vibrant backdrop of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Each story is inspired by a song and acts like a track on a playlist that captures the rhythms of life—its brokenness, beauty, heartbreak, resilience, and hope.
Through richly drawn, relatable characters and situations—from a teenage wannabe DJ navigating family collapse to a man arranging his brother’s living funeral, from friends wrestling with intimacy to a woman seeking inner peace with the help of music and ginger tea—Garricks explores the messy, often painful, but profoundly human experience of love, loss, and survival.
The prose is lyrical and deeply grounded in local culture, creating a seamless tapestry of voices that reflect the emotional soundtrack of life in contemporary Nigeria. Music here is not just a motif but a metaphor for memory, identity, and healing. Each story, like a favorite song, lingers long after the last page.
Ideal for readers of literary fiction and short stories, A Broken People’s Playlist blends humor, pathos, and insight to illuminate the universal search for connection and redemption amid life’s fragments.
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