«Impressively distilled in plot and style, Joy nonetheless explores (but does not untie) a formidable knot of issues around money, migration, motherhood, race, policing,
pragmatism, and violence both personal and systemic. Each narrative turn complicates all the others, and a late, unexpected
return to Nigeria, positioned as neither a welcome escape nor an irreversible fall, only adds further ironies.»
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