The cursed daughters by oyinkan Braithwaite

I don’t know why I keep going back to Nigerian authors. They always leave me emotionally wrecked. No one writes angst and heartbreak better than they do. I went into this one completely blind ,didn’t even read the blurb and now I’m here, shattered.

The story follows three generations of women, shifting between timelines. It begins with the great-grandmother, who stole another woman’s husband and, as a result, was cursed along with every woman who would come after her. The curse is brutal: the daughters will never be able to keep a man, and those who do manage to marry will never know peace in their homes.

Our FMC, Eniiyi, belongs to the present timeline. She is born on the very day her Aunt Mofine dies, and the family believes she is her aunt reincarnated. As the narrative moves between past and present, we watch women across three generations attempt to break or survive the curse in their own different ways.

And somehow, through all that pain, it still feels deeply intimate and heartbreakingly beautiful.