What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories - Lesley Nneka Arimah

Descriere What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories - Lesley Nneka Arimah

\nA PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick \nA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE \n \nWINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE \n \nWINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD \n \nFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE \n \nSHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE \n \nA 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. \n \n 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. \n \n 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.\n

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Riverhead Books

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ENSTK

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9780735211032

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