Ifeanyichukwu Eze is a writer and editor. His work has appeared in Guernica, The Rumpus, The Offing, Adda, Joyland, The Dark, and a few other places. He was shortlisted for the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and emerged second prize winner for the inaugural Akuku Writers' Prize, 2020. He studied Philosophy at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
The books are on the floor, side by side. I begin to pick them up one by one. Lying beneath two old books is this one. The author’s name screams in white on a red strip at the top of the front cover.