000800659 000__ 02449cam\a2200385\i\4500 000800659 001__ 800659 000800659 005__ 20210515135229.0 000800659 008__ 161101s2017\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000800659 010__ $$a 2016036303 000800659 019__ $$a967523497 000800659 020__ $$a9780735211025$$q(hardcover) 000800659 020__ $$a0735211027$$q(hardcover) 000800659 020__ $$a9781472239617 000800659 020__ $$a147223961X 000800659 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn956479959 000800659 035__ $$a800659 000800659 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dOCLCF$$dSINLB$$dOCO$$dPCX$$dLEB$$dZQP$$dYDX$$dCO2$$dLLCLS$$dNUI$$dNZAUC$$dOSU$$dOCLCO$$dYUS$$dNYP$$dSFR$$dOCLCQ$$dITD 000800659 042__ $$apcc 000800659 049__ $$aISEA 000800659 05000 $$aPS3601.R542$$bA6 2017 000800659 08200 $$a813/.6$$223 000800659 1001_ $$aArimah, Lesley Nneka,$$eauthor. 000800659 24010 $$aShort stories.$$kSelections 000800659 24510 $$aWhat it means when a man falls from the sky /$$cLesley Nneka Arimah. 000800659 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bRiverhead Books,$$c2017. 000800659 300__ $$a230 pages ;$$c22 cm 000800659 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000800659 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia 000800659 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier 000800659 5050_ $$aThe Future Looks Good -- War Stories -- Wild -- Light -- Second Chances -- Windfalls -- Who Will Greet You at Home -- Buchi's Girls -- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky -- Glory -- What Is a Volcano? -- Redemption. 000800659 520__ $$a"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In "The Future Looks Good," three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in "Light," a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to "fix the equation of a person" - with rippling, unforeseen repercussions. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000800659 586__ $$aKirkus Prize, 2017. 000800659 650_0 $$aInterpersonal relations$$vFiction. 000800659 655_7 $$aDomestic fiction.$$2lcgft 000800659 655_7 $$aShort stories.$$2lcgft 000800659 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3601.R542$$iA6$$i2017 000800659 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:800659$$pGLOBAL_SET 000800659 980__ $$aBIB 000800659 980__ $$aBOOK