★ “Three American gay men travel to Ghana to pay homage to their enslaved ancestors and explore the country’s queer underground scene in the audacious debut from Ghanaian book critic Ben Ben...wildly inventive...The sheer wonder of Ben Ben’s narrative design anchors the reader in the immersive maelstrom of voices. The results are propulsive and deliciously irreverent in equal measure.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
★ “A cinematic, cutting, and smart debut novel...Ben Ben rejects prevailing colonial narratives with this graphic rock opera of murder, sex, and tourism.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Kobby Ben Ben’s debut, No One Dies Yet, is fascinating, funny, surreal, and provocative, its genre-warping murder tale fusing queer autofiction with geopolitics and mystery with erotica.”—ELLE Magazine
“Dark, unsettling, utterly addictive.”—African Arguments
“We’re walked through the who and why in a sometimes funny, sometimes spicy tale.”—Book Riot
“This may be one of my favorite novels ever. It’s so funny. It’s like Patricia Highsmith traded her self-loathing for a decent sense of humor.”—CrimeReads
“A book that brims with possibilities, contradictions, jokes, puzzles, detours, ambiguities, secrets and metafictional tricks and twists.”—Yagnishsing Dawoor, The Guardian
“[Kobby and Nana's] tense relationship sets the tone for what becomes a shocking and unsettling tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, yet always outspoken and iconoclastic.”—The Sunday Times (Zambia)
“A tale that challenges our very understanding of life and death.”—Newzroom Afrika