In the StoryThe Songs She Never Heard
Reni has been deaf since birth. She remembers songs that actually exist. In Lagos, melodies surface in a life where they should not exist in this form. For Reni Adeyemi, the experience raises a private question before it becomes anyone else’s. Where do these songs come from? What do they say about the person she might have been?
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Bisi Adeyemi spoke and signed at the same time, as she had since Reni was little. Her voice sometimes moved faster than her hands. Reni could not hear the voice, but she knew the signs of the lag: the mouth already on the next sentence, the fingers still occupied with the previous one.Read the excerpt ↗