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In Live for Me, Nkem, physician and writer Dr. Nneka Oluoha masterfully weaves together marital love, family pressures, cultural expectations, and mental illness to create a rich and moving portrait of the immigrant experience. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it.

A quietly devastating and deeply intimate portrayal of the burdens women carry across cultural lines. Nneka Oluoha masterfully navigates the complexities of mental health, family, and identity in this unflinching debut.

As someone who spent years trying to look perfectly fine on the outside while quietly falling apart on the inside, Live for Me, Nkem hit me hard. Nzenwa captures the exhausting performance of seeming okay when you're drowning beneath the surface - the smiles, the silence, the fear of burdening the people you love. With remarkable honesty and compassion, she shines a light on depression, cultural expectations, and the dangerous loneliness that comes from believing you have to carry everything alone. This is a powerful reminder that suffering in silence isn't strength, and that asking for help may be the bravest act of all.

"How amazing and terrifying to be seen without performing"

A powerful exploration of the consequences of mental health issues being silenced due to cultural expectations and trauma comparison, and the subsequent profound price paid by an entire family.