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Borchardt Agency |
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Riverhead (2017-04-04) |
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2nd Pass Pages |
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English |
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WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY
Stories
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 Skyheralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up wherever her father was stationed for work, which was sometimes Nigeria, sometimes not. She received her MFA at Minnesota State University. Stories from this collection have been published, or are forthcoming, in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Catapult, PANK Magazine, and Five Points. Most recently, she was named the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – Africa. She lives in Minneapolis.
Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human,What It Means When a Man Falls from the Skyheralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
Lesley Nneka Arimah was born in the UK and grew up wherever her father was stationed for work, which was sometimes Nigeria, sometimes not. She received her MFA at Minnesota State University. Stories from this collection have been published, or are forthcoming, in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Catapult, PANK Magazine, and Five Points. Most recently, she was named the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize – Africa. She lives in Minneapolis.
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