The Sound of Things to Come and the Smallness of the World

There is a saying that the world is a small place, that there is always someone who knows someone who knows us. Ours, we have come to believe, is a far-flung, yet close by neighborhood.

The Sound of Things to Come is a novel-in-stories, with eight stories wherein the characters’ lives crisscross, and sometimes merge. With this book, it is fair to think that Iduma makes a case for individuality: the inward influencing the outward, a person before the people. For instance, in the title story, Moyosore’s sudden aversion for normalcy affects her marriage and her relationship with her sister; Ugo’s iconoclasm in “Helper” rubs off on her family in startling ways; Ella’s amnesia in “The Memory Band” is the foundation for further tension in Goody and Frank’s lives. In this book of disparate yet related stories, Iduma challenges the reader to piece the bits together, to make sense out of them.

PS: The Sound of Things to Come was first published in Nigeria as Farad by Parresia Publishers.

First published on Bakwa Magazine.

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