Beem explores Africa by Simidele Dosekun

A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.

When he moved into the house his father left him, Adewale Maja-Pearce figured it wouldn’t be any problem to persuade the tenants to move out. After all, he had given them a year’s notice, rent free. But, as it unfolds in this book, it would cost him a lot more to take full possession of his inheritance.

On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira.

When a sailor named Muhidin, also an outsider, enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father