此書榮獲：
ˇWinner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literatire
ˇIndependent Publisher Book Awards-Finalist Multicultural Fiction
ˇForeword Magazine Book of the Year Award-Honorable Mention
故事發生在1971年內戰剛結束的非洲奈及利亞，兩個來自不同家庭背景的小女孩，在卸去成人世界的階級地位外衣後，成為一對好朋友，彼此幫助與扶持。11歲女孩 Enitan 在面對律師父親在內戰時被軍方拘捕生死未卜、哥哥又死於戰場、媽媽成天在教堂裡求神問卜的生活紛擾時，她一心期盼學校快點開課，這樣她可以天天上學，暫時逃避生活的無聊與無奈。在學校開學前，她認識一位住在鄰區大屋的一名女孩 Sheri。她的父親很有錢，擁有很多妻子與兒女，而 Sheri 就是其中一個孩子，因此沒有受到太多的家庭關愛。這兩名身世階級不同的小女孩的堅貞友情將因一段可怕經歷受到嚴峻考驗。
Everything Good Will Come heralds the full-length debut of a powerful new voice in feminist fiction - Sefi Atta, whose short stories have garnered acclaim from Red Hen Press and Zoetrope, among others. Told in the voice of Enitan Taiwo, a young woman living in Lagos, Nigeria, in the aftermath of that country's independence, Everything Good Will Come's narrative covers nearly thirty years and is framed by the lifelong friendship between Enitan and Sheri, a half-caste neighbor girl with a sharp tongue and wild ways.
A nation struggling to come to terms with its independence, couching its freedom in the oppressive terms of internal military rule, Nigeria is a country with unnatural borders created by outsiders. But to Enitan as a growing girl, the private wars within her parents' home shape her natural skepticism and fear of loss. Sheri's daring defiance provides a welcome but forbidden counterpoint to Enitan's own willful uncertainty - until the day when a group of boys, including one on whom the boarding-school educated Enitan has a crush, rape and ruin Sheri at a secluded party.
The incident cements in Enitan an enduring distrust of men, a notion bolstered by the fact that so many seem to betray her. When she finally commits to the quiet, strong Niyi, she struggles to keep herself intact in their personal orbit of in-laws and expectations that would have her submit, even though she has a career as a lawyer and a fierce intelligence that should otherwise put her on equal footing with her husband.
As her failure to carry a pregnancy to term and her philandering father's political outspokenness put additional pressure on Enitan's marriage, she finds herself at odds with Niyi, over-extending herself and endangering her unborn child to try to make a difference in a country whose political terrain is as unpredictable as its "no water no light" infrastructure. The conclusion she reaches, the choices she finally and deliberately makes raise this novel to levels of bittersweet greatness.
