In spare, precise prose that sees humanity everywhere, interwoven with original photos by the author, Every Day Is for the Thief-originally published in Nigeria in 2007-is a wholly original work of fiction. This revised and updated edition is the first version of this unique book to be made available outside Africa.

A young Nigerian living in New York City goes home to Lagos for a short visit, finding a city both familiar and strange. In a city dense with story, the unnamed narrator moves through a mosaic of life, hoping to find inspiration for his own. He witnesses the "yahoo yahoo" diligently perpetrating email frauds from an Internet café, longs after a mysterious woman reading on a public bus who disembarks and disappears into a bookless crowd, and recalls the tragic fate of an eleven-year-old boy accused of stealing at a local market. Along the way, the man reconnects with old friends, a former girlfriend, and extended family, taps into the energies of Lagos life-creative, malevolent, ambiguous-and slowly begins to reconcile the profound changes that have taken place in his country and the truth about himself. Read more…