Soulful Return
- Fidelis O. Mkparu
- Fiction
- Urban, Adventure, Political
- 11-Dec-2022
"The hounding voice inside me would not let go."
Thus begins the emotional journey of Afamefuna Onochie Nwaku a Harvard-trained medical doctor with a career most can only dream of, a loving wife, and supportive family. Then, he receives a telephone call from his sister who lives in Nigeria that her life is being threatened.
Left with no other fair choice, Afam leaves behind his family, throwing his marriage into turmoil and risking the life he has built in Boston. Instead of the Nigeria that he loves, that he needs, he finds a land and people he barely recognizes waiting for him. Afam decides to stay but realizes that his future in Nigeria is as murky as the River-Niger after a torrential tropical rainfall.
As Afam sets out on a journey to reconnect with the family and heritage that he left behind, he must face new enemies in an increasingly corrupt Nigeria where many people see him as an American intruder. And through it all, he must fight to keep his family together-and alive.
Fidelis O. Mkparu was born in Onitsha Nigeria, a Harvard-trained cardiologist who has written medical articles for both scientific and lay audiences. His novel Love’s Affliction, was a 2016 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner for Fiction, and a finalist for the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award for Multicultural Fiction. His novel Tears Before Exaltation was a CIPA EVVY Awards Winner, Literary & Contemporary Fiction 2018. He is a professor of Medicine at Northeast Ohio Medical University and a senior attending cardiologist at Aultman Hospital and Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio. Previously, he was a Spaulding fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He lives in Canton, Ohio USA.
