Contributions

  • Arimah, Lesley Nneka - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Riverhead Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

57,500 words, Guess

Page Count

230 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100735211027
  • ISBN-139780735211025
  • AmazonB01K1ATYFA
  • WikidataQ117085461
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016036303
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number956479959
  • Better World Books9780735211025
  • Better World BooksO9-CCX-124
  • Open LibraryOL27232487M

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3601.R542 A6 2017
  • LCCPS3601.R542A6 2017

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • What it means when a man falls from the skyRiverhead Books2017

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