On Black Sister's Street by Chika Unigwe

I was on a quest to find African literature so I visited the City of Cape Town Library (for the first time in almost 5 years) and created a library card. On Black Sisters' Street was the first book that caught my attention.

On Black Sisters'  Street is centred around four women doing their best to survive in Europe by opening their bodies to clients but their souls to no one - not even each other. The violent murder of one of the ladies draws the surviving sisters together, thereby forcing them to unravel lifelong secrets they've never said out loud to each other.
Ama who ran away from an abusive and traumatic home;
Sisi, an unemployed graduate, tired of an unambitious life;
Efe, a young mom abandoned by the much older father of her son and
Joyce who thought she had found a reason to live again but only gained betrayal which led her to Zuidsusterstraat.

A few trigger warnings: rape and blatant misogyny.
Although I found it uncomfortable, the hatred of women by men, by older women and even worse, by the ladies themselves and the notion of being "cheap girls" and being trashed "but at least I'm not as cheap as she is" were well depicted.

I disliked the excessive descriptions. For example, there was no need for us to know about the colour of the beads on the bracelet that the passenger in the bus had on her wrist.

If you're looking to shed a few tears and a few giggles along the way, I 7/10 recommend you read Chika Unigwe's unforgettable book.