What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories
ISBN-13:
9780735211025
ISBN-10:
0735211027
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
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Edition: Advance Copy; Signed by Author; Very Good; Advance Uncorrected Proof in paper wraps. Inscribed by author on title page ("For Chela, Sing On!"). Author's first book, a collection of short stories, which won the 2017 Kirkus Prize for fiction and was named Best Book of The Year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good; edgewear to wraps is very minor. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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ISBN-13:
9780735211025
ISBN-10:
0735211027
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Lesley Nneka Arimah
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Format:
Hardcover
240 pages
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (ISBN-13: 9780735211025 and ISBN-10: 0735211027), written by authors
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A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
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.
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
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.
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