Why read Jackal, Jackal?

Book cover of Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic

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From Shirley Jackson award-nominated author Tobi Ogundiran, comes a highly anticipated debut collection of stories full of magic and wonder and breathtaking imagination!

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2 authors picked Jackal, Jackal as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Eugen Bacon

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Tobi Ogundiran’s Shirley Jackson Award-winning collection puts new wine into old skins.

Jackal, Jackal is an assured assemblage for the reader prepared to be astonished. The highly-imaginative stories and invented worlds take fairytales that we know and boldly recast them in an African yet universal culture that woos a far-reaching readership.

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Wole Talabi

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Jackal Jackal is an entertaining collection of eighteen stories that includes two originals and sixteen reprints of relatively new stories, most of which are riffs on some classic fairytales or have the quality of such tales, by Nigerian author Tobi Ogundiran.

It’s a great showcase of Ogundiran’s consistency and strengths as a storyteller and dark fabulist. Every story is crafted to elicit a strong, visceral reaction. These are stories that you’re meant to feel. In my review for Locus Magazine, I said that you should think of this as The Brothers Grimm by way of Amos Tutuola. Or Stephen…

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