The long-anticipated debut novel The Road to the Salt Sea by Penn State faculty member Samuel Kọ́láwọlé now has a cover!

Debutiful, a website/podcast dedicated to promoting debut authors, revealed the cover today in a news story that characterizes the book this way:

“The Road to the Salt Sea is the forthcoming debut novel from Nigerian writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé likened to the works of Omar El Akkad and Mohsin Hamid’s. Set to release on July 2 from Amistad Press [an imprint of HarperCollins], the novel follows a lowly hotel worker whose life collides with a sex work and a dangerous guest. Throughout Kọ́láwọlé explores the Nigerian class system and how fate and fortune are fickle things.”

Read more about the book and the cover design here on Debutiful…. 

Pre-order a copy of The Road to the Salt Sea here!