The Visit and other Stories by Mogo, Ebele

Across eleven quietly arresting stories, The Visit and Other Stories follows people carrying private wounds, unanswered longings, and the small hopes that help them endure. Moving with ease between urban restlessness and village intimacy, these stories follow characters poised at the edge of change: a young woman caught in the crossfire of an expatriate’s panic; a daughter haunted by the twenty-nine steps that separated her father from survival; a mother whose grief sharpens into myth; a girl boarding a bus to Lagos with only hope and her mother’s prayers; a Sunday afternoon that exposes the quiet fault lines in a marriage; a woman living at the far edge of her own mind.

Mogo’s characters walk through worlds touched by illness, loss, superstition, and the occasional presence of the not-quite-living, yet their resilience glimmers in the smallest gestures. What emerges is an intimate, haunting portrait of Nigerian life—its tenderness, its fractures, and the quiet determination that keeps its people reaching toward the light.