Where You Go, I Will Go
Congo, Democratic Republic

Where You Go, I Will Go

by Christina Fonthes

Motherhood Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Family Saga 2025

Summary

Two women, separated by a generation, struggle to reconcile love, family expectations, and the desire to live freely. In 1980s Kinshasa, teenage Mira falls in love with a poor singer, defying her ambitious family and setting in motion events that will shape her future across continents. Two decades later, in London, her daughter Bijoux hides her relationship with a woman behind the obedient persona expected of her by her strict Pentecostal aunt. As their stories intertwine, both women must confront inherited wounds, cultural traditions, and the meaning of home. Tender and emotionally powerful, this intergenerational family saga explores queer love, migration, motherhood, and the courage to break free from the past.

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About the author
Christina Fonthes
Christina Fonthes

Christina Fonthes is an award-winning Congolese-British writer whose work explores womanhood, migration, identity, and belonging. Her writing has appeared in literary journals and anthologies, including Ake Review, Filigree, and Too Young, Too Black, Too Different. In 2021, she received the Royal Society of Literature Sky Arts Writers Award for Fiction and was mentored by acclaimed authors Bernardine Evaristo and Irenosen Okojie. Fonthes is also the founder of REWRITE, a creative writing organisation dedicated to supporting Black women and women of colour writers. Beyond her fiction, she works as an interdisciplinary artist, creating poetry films, short films, and digital portraits. Her debut novel, Where You Go, I Will Go, was published in 2025 and was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. In 2026, she won the award. Her writing gives voice to underrepresented experiences, particularly those of Black and queer women navigating family, culture, and displacement.

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2025
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Christina Fonthes