Sparrows of Destiny describes Falilat’s slight of serene infelicity which will astonish you, she was deprived of existence by a lorry bus driver, and her children growing-up as destitute in a strange kind of neighbourhood by the roadside were forced to confront the meaning of their lives after their departure. It’s an intense, fearless tragic story involving three people who never knew they were the same blood.
It features a young woman caught up in pain and agony, eventually Agnes had moral beginning, she engaged with the man of her dreams who she didn’t know was her blood brother, the man of her dreams Ibrahim realized she loves him, but in a master stroke of love eternally unrequited, he arrives to tell her so mere after he discovered that she was his younger sister. Their love expired from a dose of throbbing background.
It also involves the sympathy of an American Samaritan, adoption, relentless and intriguing. It is a story filled with love and loss, and finding love again, with characters you find yourself becoming so completely attached to that you refuse anything but an happy ending. You’ll cry a lot, so keep that pile of tissues close.
It’s a twisted coming of age story of a young girl Agnes; she was lost in regret and addicted to replaying the inequities of the past.
The debut novel from Olawale Obalade, ‘Sparrows of Destiny’ is a new addition to the great mystery & Literary book of Emily Bleeker, James Petterson, and Paula Hawkins.
