If there’s a Theater of the Absurd, of which Waiting for Godot is one of the prime examples, then these three novels would make a similar claim to be literary works that revel in the absurd and ridiculous, to our reading joy.
"Futility" by Nuzo Onoh
A Nigerian-British author who has received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Onoh is hailed as the Queen of African Horror, and this is her latest. Playing gleefully and in a demented manner on the themes of female retribution and punishment, we find two women as the central characters of the storyline. First, there is Chia, a woman who runs a highly regarded restaurant in Abuja, Nigeria. Their best-selling dish, a hot pepper meat soup, has a secret ingredient that would qualify as body horror.
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