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The story of one woman's war against cultural and traditional walls that limit the choices of women in an African social space, Married but Single (2024) presents the profound trauma and physical battles that attend the protagonist's consuming desire to have a male child to perpetuate her late husband's name by marrying her fellow woman. Set in tradition-suffused, intermesh of rocky and marshy Atlantic coast border clan of Afikpo Igbo in Eastern Nigeria, besides its deep invocation of historical and culinary nuances, this epic novel significantly straddles the sordid and disquieting conditions of widows in Africa as well as throwing up knotty legal puzzles in an accessible yet metaphoric language and complex plot. A 406-page fiction appearing from the stable of highly rated #Parresia Publishers, Lagos, Nigeria, this second novel by author and Chief Magistrate Ojemba Isu-Oko promises the reader more than the worth of their invested money and reading time; his first novel, 669-page Vanishing Identity (2007) has been critically acclaimed! Legal practitioners, gynocritics, sociologists, literary aficionados/theorists/scholars, psychologists/psychotherapists, religionists, moralists, traditionalists, feminists, masculinists, cultural and queer activists, widows, all married/yet-to-get married people, arts educationists, general readers, etc would be grateful to have copies of this timely novel of our time!