Stylist Best New Fiction of 2024A Bookseller -One to Watch--Manny and the Baby stood out for me from the first few lines. The beautifully balanced prose, the wonderful story, and sumptuous detail are constructed with poetic precision and held my attention right until the very end.- Jacqueline Crooks, author of Fire Rush-An incredibly special writer, thoughtful and energetic, occasionally savage, wise beyond her years, with an eye and an ear for syntax that is masterful ... Varaidzo is the future, and Manny and the Baby is a book for the ages.- Nikesh ShuklaIncluded in NetGalley-s 2024 Hot List London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm. Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want to become. Manny Powell is forthright, intellectual, and determined to make her mark on the London literary scene. Her younger sister, Rita -The Baby-, just wants to dance. Chasing their dreams across smoky Soho jazz clubs, they soon find th
