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What it means when a man falls from the sky / Lesley Nneka Arimah.

By: Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017Description: 230 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780735211025 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3601.R542 A6 2017
Other classification:
  • FIC051000 | FIC019000
Contents:
The Future Looks Good -- War Stories -- Wild -- 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.
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.
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PS3601 .N55415 H94 2014 Hyena / PS3601 .O38 L54 2021 Light from uncommon stars / PS3601 .R42 B43 2017 The bear and the nightingale : a novel / PS3601.R542 A6 2017 What it means when a man falls from the sky / PS3601 .R5787 A6 2018 Beyond measure : essays / PS3601 .T78 E94 2005 Everything good will come : a novel / PS3602 .A83854 W4 2019 We hope for better things /

"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.

The Future Looks Good -- War Stories -- Wild -- 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.

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