Damage By Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

When Nasrin Amin casts her first vote on June 12, 1993, she believes a new dawn is breaking for her country and for her heart. But decades later, the scars of one brutal night return to haunt her and her children. Mustapha, the rational dreamer; Suraj, the hot-headed soldier-in-waiting; and Zubaida, the sharp-eyed chronicler of family secrets, are all drawn into a dangerous reckoning with the man who embodies both their nation’s brutality and their mother’s deepest wound.

Colonel Jarumai has spent his life burying memories of what he has done. For Nasrin, silence has been survival. But when her sons plot vengeance and her daughter demands truth, the past can no longer stay buried.

Spanning the euphoric promise of democracy to the suffocating grip of dictatorship, Damage asks what justice looks like when silence has already stolen so much. It is a story about the cost of memory, the inheritance of pain, and the fragile hope that love might endure even after everything else is broken.