Wayward Eastlanders

By Okang'a Ooko

In the hustles of Eastlands, nobody wins. One dame is desperate and calculatingly manipulative. The other is a gash who just makes hash of the arrogant male romantic interests through her offhand sexuality. This is a story about misfits. An ugly woman who is a wall climber, a cripple in a wheelchair who calls the shots, a pastor who is a big con, a shylock who wants to be an MP, a ghetto thug whose only dream in life is to own a matatu.

Atieno Mary Bella is a troubled enterprise owner whose struggles with her work, doubts about her talent, and complicated relationships often puts her at odds over affections associated with men. Working for her is Akombe Bosibori, a backstabbing marketer who has designed a campaign for a multi-million national disability project that will utilise government funds to raise awareness in the low income areas of Nairobi. However, the whole thing is orchestrated by a man in a wheelchair, the flamboyant Tutu Kulundeng, a mastermind and organiser of grand schemes for the cartel-run government. He wants an existing advertising agency to use to siphon millions from the government. Using the scrawny underdog, Kiprotich, he knows how to manipulate Bosibori.

Atieno and Bosibori place their bets on four unreliable characters in their power struggle: Atieno on Papa Gachietha, a shylock and grand thief, and on Ojuku, a ghetto thug. Bosibori places hers on Kulundeng and on Pastor Otodo, a greedy two-timing preacher who brainwashes her with intent to take over Atieno's company and add it to his wealth as an asset of his church. Kulundeng, Otodo, Gachietha and Ojuku think they know the ropes; and women. Maybe they do. But they don't know Atieno too well, otherwise they'd have realised that they are just flies stumbling into the deadly web of a woman whose danger comes from her waywardness and instability, heightened by the hard life of Eastlands, with which she was fatally touched.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CNRTX7KF
• ISBN13: 9798867514150
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"