{"id":664,"date":"2023-06-10T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=product&#038;p=664"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:44:50","slug":"when-we-were-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/book\/when-we-were-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Were Fireflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. First, it triggers memories of past lives in which he was twice murdered\u2014once on a train. He also meets Aziza, a woman with a complicated past of her own, who becomes key to helping him understand what he is experiencing. With a third death in his current life imminent, together they go hunting for remnants of his past lives. Will they find evidence that he is losing his mind or the people who once loved or loathed him?\\n\\n\u201cA gripping, layered, passionate and haunting novel with tones of otherworldliness. Abubakar\u2019s prose sparkles with poetry, wisdom and compassion. This is a complex and unforgettable story that will keep you up at night.\u201d \u2013 Bisi Adjapon&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:15233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:538,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;5&quot;:1}}\">When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. First, it triggers memories of past lives in which he was twice murdered\u2014once on a train. He also meets Aziza, a woman with a complicated past of her own, who becomes key to helping him understand what he is experiencing. With a third death in his current life imminent, together they go hunting for remnants of his past lives. Will they find evidence that he is losing his mind or the people who once loved or loathed him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA gripping, layered, passionate and haunting novel with tones of otherworldliness. Abubakar\u2019s prose sparkles with poetry, wisdom and compassion. This is a complex and unforgettable story that will keep you up at night.\u201d \u2013 Bisi Adjapon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. First, it triggers memories of past lives in which he was twice murdered\u2014once on a train. He also meets Aziza, a woman with a complicated past of her own, who becomes key to helping him understand what he is experiencing. With a third death in his current life imminent, together they go hunting for remnants of his past lives. Will they find evidence that he is losing his mind or the people who once loved or loathed him?\\n\\n\u201cA gripping, layered, passionate and haunting novel with tones of otherworldliness. Abubakar\u2019s prose sparkles with poetry, wisdom and compassion. This is a complex and unforgettable story that will keep you up at night.\u201d \u2013 Bisi Adjapon&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:15233,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;10&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,&quot;16&quot;:11}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:538,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;5&quot;:1}}\">When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. First, it triggers memories of past lives in which he was twice murdered\u2014once on a train. He also meets Aziza, a woman with a complicated past of her own, who becomes key to helping him understand what he is experiencing. With a third death in his current life imminent, together they go hunting for remnants of his past lives. Will they find evidence that he is losing his mind or the people who once loved or loathed him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA gripping, layered, passionate and haunting novel with tones of otherworldliness. Abubakar\u2019s prose sparkles with poetry, wisdom and compassion. This is a complex and unforgettable story that will keep you up at night.\u201d \u2013 Bisi Adjapon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"retailer":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[332,347],"product_tag":[183,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-664","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-award-winning-books","7":"product_cat-literary-fiction","8":"product_tag-abubakar-adam-ibrahim","9":"product_tag-literary-fiction","10":"thb-post-share-style1","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When We Were Fireflies - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/book\/when-we-were-fireflies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When We Were Fireflies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When brooding artist, Yarima Lalo, encounters a moving train for the first time, two serendipitous events occur. 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