In a world where real love is scarce, romance stories give hope, promising the restoration of broken souls and the healing of hurt hearts.
In Aanu Ife, Lara T. Kareem takes readers through a brief but eventful dive into the whirlpools of emotional damage, then washes them ashore into the sunny warmth of renewed hope, life, and love.
Ina, a lover girl at heart, embarks on a train journey from the city to the countryside, seeking respite from her life's chaotic mess.
In Aaanu Ife, Ina's adventure takes her through different shades of her recent past, even as she finds fresh resolve to heal from past traumas.
With the entirety of this work yet to be fully revealed, the story of Ina is part of the main body of work, Aanu Ife, with a prelude poem and other art to follow.
Ina's core storyline elicits all the right emotions from readers, inspiring at different turns: hope, regret, loss, vulnerability, self-awareness, connection, and forgiveness.
On the other hand, the second part of the Aanu Ife creative project compresses the main themes of Ina's story into three lyrically outstanding poems: A Quiet Unfolding, Lost in the Void, and Return to Self.
Aanu Ife literally translates to "(the) mercy of love (there are no definite articles in Yoruba grammar)," which is a reminder of love's healing capacity.
Readers finding solace, community, love, and stability will find their beatitudes within Lara T. Kareem's precise and vulnerability-inciting storytelling.
