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Ayo
Tamakloe-Garr

I write fiction that sits close to Ghana — Osu on the brink of '66, a house on a ridge in Cape Coast, a trotro station at Circle. Some of it is historical. Some of it is gothic. All of it is trying to tell the truth one sentence at a time.

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Ayo Tamakloe-Garr

The debut novel

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The Wolf at Number 4

Ohio University Press · Modern African Writing series

A young teacher starting over in Cape Coast befriends the strange, brilliant boy next door — a child who calls himself Wolf, answers to no one, and may be the only honest person she knows. Equal parts coming-of-age and gothic fable, The Wolf at Number 4 asks an old question in an unfamiliar house: can you unmake what has been made?

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Short fiction

The Ramblers

New year's eve 1965 — old friends gather one last time before leaving for the UK. But when Lamiokor appears at the car door, the past refuses to stay behind.