The Memory of the Ogisi

The concluding volume of Moses Ose Utomi's Forever Desert, The Memory of the Ogisi returns to the same harsh, myth-haunted world in a new age, following one of the ogisi — the keepers of history and story — as the truths and lies passed down through generations come due. Like the fables before it, it is a slim, potent tale about memory, power, and how the stories a people tell can free them or bind them, told in the cadence of legend.