{"product_id":"the-wickedest","title":"The Wickedest","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Femi, Caleb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“Caleb Femi is a gift to us all from the storytelling gods. He is a poet of truth and rage, heartbreak and joy.” —Max Porter, author of \u003ci\u003eShy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive epic taking place over one night at an underground London house party, conjured by a multi-hyphenate sensation.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWelcome to the Wickedest, the longest running house party in the South London shoob scene, always held at an undisclosed inner-city spot. You better hope you have the address: this is for\u003cbr\u003elocals only.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSweaty and cinematic, pulsing with rhythm and heat, every moment here—from one-on-one intimacies to the swell of the party’s collective roar—is refracted in Caleb Femi’s writing. Ingeniously blending conversations, text messages, sonnets, vignettes, monologues, photos, and lyrics, \u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern epic, told as a minute-by-minute chronicle of an unforgettable night out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFemi, a multi-hyphenate sensation and the author of \u003ci\u003ePoor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was called “a landmark debut for British poetry” by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, is a generational storyteller and scene setter. But \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWickedest\u003c\/i\u003e does more than tell the story of one party; Femi uses the experience of nightlife to document the broader contexts surrounding the shoobs—the marginalization of low-income communities of color, the red tape that bars those on the edges from already shrinking communal space. Still, the party goes on. \u003ci\u003eThe Wickedest\u003c\/i\u003e is a respite and a reckoning, a community of desire, care, and resistance that carries on long past the night’s end.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67840882573557,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/5094\/6247\/files\/Screenshot_2026-10-26_at_1.21.33_PM.png?v=1793035377","url":"https:\/\/nookbooksbvi.com\/products\/the-wickedest","provider":"NookBVI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}