Introduction to my Book Series
What does it take to Love Outside the Club? By Eileen Omosa
Historically, up to yesterday, human beings have thrived within groups, and they continue to handpick buddies from groups like their own—country, ethnicity or social-economic status, aka, class. The selections are most pronounced in business, courtship, and marriage.
Welcome to my book series, To Love Outside the Club—novels on change and adaptation. Click here to read the novels
I use fictional characters to highlight topics one could encounter somewhere in the countries of Africa, and sometimes the rest of the world. The issues covered have not happened to one person, aka, characters in the novels. The issues are one part of me, one part of you, and the third piece is a random person. That’s the beauty of being a reader, you get to choose the piece that fits you.
Does education open more doors or conflicts for women?
Kick-start your reading of the series with Sophia’s story. Education, technological innovations, and globalization have opened doors previously closed to others. Follow Sophia and Richie’s trilogy while you ponder if education opens more doors, or conflicts for women in Africa? How do women who’ve gained education balance career and cultural expectations?
Why do parents encourage children to cross economic but not ethnic borders?
In books 4-6, follow Omondi and Abikok as they navigate marriage across ethnicities and international borders. Their chance encounter is facilitated by increased globalization as people migrate to maximize on opportunities in faraway lands. Be entertained while you ponder how two people behave when they are away from the Place called Home. Add a third party to the mix and ask which of the strangers will stay on and which one will take off. Devour the trilogy and share your take on why social groups embrace their own whenever they cross economic boundaries but question the same individuals whenever they dare to cross ethnic boundaries.
Is it worth the trouble?
Book seven onwards are Standalone books on what it takes for a group member to dare graze outside their pen in their search for a HEA in marriage and life in general? The novels will push you to reflect on what it takes for someone from a wealthy family to marry outside their Club. And between men and women, who has it easier when they try to leap outside set boundaries?
Start with Angela and Ronny, a nanny and a CEO, as they search for a second chance in life.
Odhiambo and Redempta will get you asking if it’s worth the struggle to marry a billionaire’s daughter. When you think it cannot get any entertaining, enter Jade and Letitiah, blocked because their parents don’t shake hands in the political and economic spheres. Read on, in book ten I ask if a woman can marry ten classes below her own. Stay tuned, the series continues as I unravel issues hidden within those dark glass-walled skyscrapers, and the struggles hidden behind the enormous houses behind those high walls.