I think when you compare it with the awful of something like the treatment of the trans character in Bird, Boy, Snow (a book which came out not long after Lagoon) it looks like trying but I think there were def some bumps in that storyline & in other areas. I felt like she wanted to expand the diversity of her story & reach out to include people from a wide variety of Nigerian communities but ended up wandering into narrative defaults further down the line (especially when you look at a lot of the characters who ended up dead).

I'm looking forward to reading more by her - I hear Akata Witch is great :)