"A novel of dreamy indolence and big ideas: When and where will Emil find himself when at last he emerges from the haze of uncertainty, when he decides who and what and where he's going to be?"

-- Kirkus Reviews

"Terry perfectly captures how youthful decisions--or indecisions--can have radical impacts on the rest of our lives."

-- Electric Literature

"In this transfixing novel, Olufemi Terry mines Creoleness, the fluid antithesis of the colonial 'Root, ' to dissect a parallel South Africa. It's an exquisitely ironic tour of a society where the neoliberal settlement has made wealth the ultimate partition, and every mirror reflects a different colonial ghost."

-- Brian Chikwava, author of Harare North

"I loved this novel, at once vivid and mysterious, beautiful and frightening. Olufemi Terry speaks with great clarity and precision to the aimlessness and self-disconnect of youth, the formlessness of relationships developed under liminal conditions, and the frightening sensation of being gradually absorbed into something vast and opaque. Emil is a fascinating protagonist; Wilderness of Mirrors follows his movements closely, yet he remains - to himself, too - often half-absent, though occasionally brought into sharp focus and placed under the lens of his own self-analysis. Wilderness of Mirrors follows Emil's search for meaning and emotion amidst the mysteries of himself and of the parallel South Africa in which the novel is set, to deeply absorbing, often destabilising effect."

-- Harriet Armstrong, author of To Rest Our Minds and Bodies

"In Wilderness of Mirrors, Olufemi Terry conjures up a parallel South Africa where, although apartheid is decades gone, its young people move through an existential transience, fitfully straining to reckon with the gaps their country's history has left them. For Emil and Tamsin, there's no coming of age, only a hollow sense that they should be doing more with selves they are still figuring out. It's a world that is all too familiar, yet Terry transfixes the reader such that we are loathe to turn away."

-- Evan Narcisse, author, Rise of the Black Panther

"An unsentimental portrait of young adulthood in a city both beguiling and perilous, and which reflects Africans as they are too rarely depicted: hybrid, modern, and shaped by their own profound contradictions. Terry's pared but illuminating prose captures the weight of its protagonists' search for their place in the world."

-- Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

"Olufemi Terry's remarkable debut explores the effects of colonialism, social atomization and the rootlessness of affluence."

-- Harare Review of Books