QUIXOTIC FISSURES

A passionate, brave, lively and beautifully written book about
childhood, family, relationships, friendships
and the tragedy of losing those we love.

– Bernardine Evaristo
I couldn’t have known how affected I’d be by the baring of this creative soul. I cried, I laughed, I nodded so hard, I stopped to think. The collection is heartfelt, beautiful, drowned in light, yet unafraid of the darkness. These essays make me want to write lavishly, love harder, embrace joy as nourishment. – Leone Ross
Okojie is such a vibrant, accomplished writer, and this collection showcases some of her finest writing – Joanne Harris
Quixotic Fissuresis so many wonderful things: it’s frank, often bracingly so; it’s also funny, erotic, tender, vulnerable and sometimes quietly devastating. Above all, Okojie’s latest book is engrossing. It is a highly original work, and the writing - bold, heartfelt, intellectually curious - is so often surprising. I am excited for readers to fall in love with it, as I did. – Okechukwu Nzelu
Okojie’s recollections paint the most heartwarming portrayal of an author and her community. This book is a celebration of black excellence and a reminder of how much is out there for us if we pay attention. – Tendai Huchu
Irenosen Okojie pushes the boundaries in what is ‘the norm’ with this rich communion of self and psyche. We have been truly blessed. – Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ
Refusing easy resolution, Quixotic Fissures is a luminous and audacious testament to language and community as our primary instruments of survival against the chaos of grief, inheritance and memory. – Issa Quincy
Irenosen Okojie is an iconoclast, and this latest collection provides insight into a mind brimming with the familiar and the strange, the elegant discomfort of the uncanny, and a refreshingly unpredictable language. – Anton Hur
Intimate, bold and evocative, Quixotic Fissures situates grief alongside its opposites: from farce to the mortuary, blindness to light. It reads like witnessing Okojie at her writing desk, discovering in real time what her fiction’s aesthetic intensity can do to the essay form. – Brian Chikwava

Nuanced and tender, this genre defying collection is full of powerful,
moving insights, rendered in Okojie’s signature vibrantly innovative
language.

– Sunny Singh
Quixotic Fissures moves through liminal spaces: between past and present, body and landscape, rupture and transformation. Okojie’s masterful command of language and form lies in her ability to pierce into the invisible wounds that ensnare us all, while conjuring inner and outer worlds with startling texture and poignancy. – Kanza Javed

Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British author whose work pushes the boundaries of form, language and ideas. Her debut novel, Butterfly Fish, and short story collections, Speak Gigantular and Nudibranch, have won and been nominated for multiple awards.

Her journalism has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian, and the Huffington Post. She was a Contributing Editor for The White Review and a co-presenter of the BBC’s Turn Up for The Books podcast.

Okojie has also judged various literary prizes, including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and the BBC National Short Story Award. She was a judge for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

As Vice Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, she was awarded an MBE for Services to Literature in 2021. She is also the director and founder of the Black to the Future festival.