What it means when a man falls from the sky / Lesley Nneka Arimah.
2017
PS3601.R542 A6 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
What it means when a man falls from the sky / Lesley Nneka Arimah.
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
ISBN
9780735211025 (hardcover)
0735211027 (hardcover)
9781472239617
147223961X
0735211027 (hardcover)
9781472239617
147223961X
Published
New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.
Language
English
Description
230 pages ; 22 cm
Call Number
PS3601.R542 A6 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Awards
Kirkus Prize, 2017.
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Table of Contents
The 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.
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.