Writing became an inbuilt part of my life the moment I realized there's a story for every soul. I'm a Nigerian author, and my craft is gathering the atoms of nature, human occurrence, and belief the world holds then fusing them into a story, a body any soul can fit in.
Mira has spent most of her life behind glass.Born with Glass Vein Syndrome, a condition so rare that only two people in every billion are expected to have it, she experiences the world with a sensitivity that makes ordinary life dangerous. Light, sound, temperature, crowds and even the emotional presence of other people can overwhelm her nervous system, leaving her dependent on carefully controlled routines and the safety of her mother's house.So Mira watches instead.From the enormous window of her bedroom, she studies the lives unfolding across the streets of Miami, recording their habits in her Grey Diary and finding comfort in the solitude of people she will never have to meet. It is easier to observe life than to participate in it.Then she notices the boy across the street.Jeremy is different. His presence does not trigger the response Mira has spent years learning to manage. What begins as observation gradually becomes curiosity, then friendship, drawing her into a world she has only ever seen through glass.But Jeremy is not the only thing disrupting the carefully ordered life Mira has built around herself.For seven years, she has been recording strange recurring dreams—places she has never visited, people she has never met and a man whose face she can never quite remember. As the episodes become more vivid, patterns begin emerging between dreams, memories and people who should have nothing to do with one another.Jeremy gives those patterns a name: anamnesis.And once Mira begins questioning what she remembers, she must confront a possibility more unsettling than any of her episodes—that some memories may not belong to the life she is living.
Mira has spent most of her life behind glass.Born with Glass Vein Syndrome, a condition so rare that only two people in every billion are expected to have it, she experiences the world with a sensitivity that makes ordinary life dangerous. Light, sound, temperature, crowds and even the emotional presence of other people can overwhelm her nervous system, leaving her dependent on carefully controlled routines and the safety of her mother's house.So Mira watches instead.From the enormous window of her bedroom, she studies the lives unfolding across the streets of Miami, recording their habits in her Grey Diary and finding comfort in the solitude of people she will never have to meet. It is easier to observe life than to participate in it.Then she notices the boy across the street.Jeremy is different. His presence does not trigger the response Mira has spent years learning to manage. What begins as observation gradually becomes curiosity, then friendship, drawing her into a world she has only ever seen through glass.But Jeremy is not the only thing disrupting the carefully ordered life Mira has built around herself.For seven years, she has been recording strange recurring dreams—places she has never visited, people she has never met and a man whose face she can never quite remember. As the episodes become more vivid, patterns begin emerging between dreams, memories and people who should have nothing to do with one another.Jeremy gives those patterns a name: anamnesis.And once Mira begins questioning what she remembers, she must confront a possibility more unsettling than any of her episodes—that some memories may not belong to the life she is living.