ARGONAUT BOOKS

'A Broken People's Playlist' is set to the soundtrack of life, comprised of twelve music-inspired tales about love, the human condition, micro-moments, and the search for meaning and sometimes, redemption. It is also Chimeka Garricks's love letter to his native city, Port Harcourt, introducing us to a cast of indelible characters in these loosely interlocked tales. There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart - who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife; a man who throws a living funeral for ...Read More