wilderness of mirrors
9 September 2025 (USA), Restless Books
The debut novel from Caine Prize–winning author Olufemi Terry captures the heady abandon of early adulthood in an Africa still reeling from the lasting effects of colonialism and racial partition.
"In Wilderness of Mirrors, Olufemi Terry conjures up a parallel South Africa where, although apartheid is decades gone, its young people move through an existential transience, fitfully straining to reckon with the gaps their country's history has left them… It's a world that is all too familiar, yet Terry transfixes the reader such that we are loath to turn away from them."
—Evan Narcisse, writer and journalist