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The Cartographer's Daughter

by Adunola

When Adaeze inherits her late father's trunk of hand-drawn maps, she expects street names and survey lines. Instead she finds forty-two versions of a city that was never quite real — overlaid, again and again, with a love story he never told anyone. Set across 1940s Lagos, a novel about the places we draw to hold the people we can't.

8
Chapters
2.8k
Readers
19 min
Avg. Chapter
May 2025
Updated

Chapters

01

Where the Lines Were Drawn

Lagos, 1947.

April 6, 2025
11 min
02

Ink and Memory

What the second map revealed.

April 13, 2025
10 min
03

The Surveyor's Apprentice

manuscript in progress
04

Letters That Were Never Maps

manuscript in progress
05

R, Underlined

manuscript in progress
06

The War Years, Redrawn

manuscript in progress
07

What the Aunties Wouldn't Say

manuscript in progress
08

The Lagos Grid

The last map, and the city it was hiding.

June 7, 2025
22 min