{"id":290,"date":"2020-06-20T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theissue.fuelthemes.net\/issue-03\/?post_type=product&#038;p=290"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:52:05","slug":"a-broken-peoples-playlist","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/book\/a-broken-peoples-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Broken People\u2019s Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;A Broken People\u2019s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. From its poignant beginning in \u201cLost Stars\u201d a story about love and it\u2019s fleeting, transient nature to the gritty, raw musical prose encapsulated in \u201cIn The City\u201d, a tale of survival set in the alleyways of the waterside. A Broken People\u2019s Playlist is a mosaic of stories about living, loving and hurting through very familiar sounds, in very familiar ways and finding healing in the most unlikely places. \\n\\nThe stories are also part-homage and part-love letter to Port Harcourt (the city which most of them are set in). The prose is distinctive as it is concise and unapologetically Nigerian. And because the collection is infused with the magic of evocative storytelling, everyone is promised a story, a character, to move or haunt them.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:13185,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\">A Broken People\u2019s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully woven that each story flows into the other seamlessly. 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