MFA Alum Tochi Eze's Book Cover; Debut Novel Release Date August 2025

MFA Creative Writing Alum Tochi Eze's debut novel, This Kind of Trouble, has a cover and a release date of August 2025.

According to the publisher's page for This Kind of Trouble :

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centered on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago.
 
In 1960s Lagos, a city enlivened with its newfound Independence, headstrong Margaret meets British-born Benjamin, a man seeking his ancestral roots after the death of his half-Nigerian father. Their connection is immediate, but as the two begin to fall in love, they discover that their pasts are more interwoven than they imagined due to a series of events that transpired in their ancestral community. The shadow of these events, combined with Margaret’s deteriorating mental health eventually tear them apart. [ . . . ]

You can read more about Tochi Eze at the author's website.