This Kind of Trouble

THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is a spellbinding tale of family secrets and how the influence of past generations impacts on the present. Eze expertly weaves together the elements that show how, over the course of a century, a family can break apart and heal. An excellent debut. – Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets
In beautiful prose, Eze delivers an unflinching exploration of love, familial ties, and alienation…and the painful legacies that endure. – Chioma Okereke
In THIS KIND OF TROUBLE, Tochi Eze has crafted a taut narrative of dislocation and estrangement that is also a moving story of love and generational change. A wrenching, propulsive, and unforgettable debut. – Bruce Holsinger, author of The Gifted School and The Displacements
THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is an incandescent and moving portrait of star-crossed lovers caught between the weight of tradition, the silent trials of mental illness, and the family secrets carried across generations. In turns tender and unflinchingly honest, Tochi Eze explores the quiet courage it takes to live in a world where duty and desire are often at odds. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this intimate, emotionally resonant, and profoundly human story. – francesca ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread
There is a mythic quality to Tochi Eze’s writing, an expansiveness of vision. THIS KIND OF TROUBLE gripped my heart and my imagination with its intricate tapestry of humanity. – Tsering Yangzom Lama, author of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
An immersive and bewitching tale of family, fortune, love, and all that is sacrificed in pursuit of it. With masterful craft, Eze guides the reader through alternating years and perspectives to illuminating cumulative effect. THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is gorgeous, a promising debut signifying the emergence of an important new talent. – Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat
With the gravity of something ancient and the insight of something very contemporary, THIS KIND OF TROUBLE movingly traces the cracks of a family’s fractured history across a century. In her richly layered debut, Tochi Eze spins a complex and heart-wrenching tale, asking profound questions about belief, betrayal, and what it is that we inherit. – Temim Fruchter, author of City of Laughter
Deftly woven and beautifully conceived, in her riveting debut novel THIS KIND OF TROUBLE, Tochi Eze brilliantly chronicles the weight and wonders of love, spirit and ancestry with grit, elegance and remarkable power. – Mai Sennaar, author of They Dream In Gold
THIS KIND OF TROUBLE is a sweeping and captivating tale about what happens when love and history collide. – Nadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks

Tochi Eze is a writer and lawyer from Nigeria. Longreads named her short story “The Americanization of Kambili,” published by Catapult, as one of “Ten Outstanding Stories to Read in 2023.” She has an MFA from Florida Atlantic University and is currently a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Virginia. This Kind of Trouble is her first novel.

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