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An Oprah Daily Best Book of February An Apple Books Best Book of the Year A Goodreads Hottest Debut of February Alta Journal and Debutiful Best Book of February Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads, Southern California Newsgroup, Debutiful, Washington Independent Review of Books & The Republic Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm.

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An Oprah Daily Best Book of February An Apple Books Best Book of the Year A Goodreads Hottest Debut of February Alta Journal and Debutiful Best Book of February Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads, Southern California Newsgroup, Debutiful, Washington Independent Review of Books & The Republic Set between Nigeria and New Orleans, The Edge of Water tells the story of a young woman who dreams of life in America, as the collision of traditional prophecy and individual longing tests the bonds of a family during a devastating storm.
Autorenporträt
Olufunke Grace Bankole is a Nigerian American writer. A graduate of Harvard Law School, and a recipient of a Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including Ploughshares, Glimmer Train Stories, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, and Stand Magazine. She won the first-place prize in the Glimmer Train Short-Story Award for New Writers, and was the Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, a residency-fellowship from the Anderson Center at Tower View, and has received a Pushcart Special Mention for her writing. She lives in Portland, Oregon.