2 Must-reads to get you through the Eid holiday

Here are books you can dive into as you celebrate the public holiday:

1. Measuring Time by Helon Habila

This book is about the story of struggle and survival in a small Nigerian village by two twin brothers, Mamo and LaMamo, brought up by a controlling, status-obsessed father in the village of Keti in northeastern Nigeria.

2. On Black Sisters Street by Chika Unigwe

On Black Sisters Street tells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their African homeland for the riches of Europe—and who are thrown together by bad luck and big dreams into a sisterhood that will change their lives