******Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by _Time Magazine_ , _Elle_ , the _Millions_ , _Nylon_ , and the _Minneapolis Star-Tribune_**** A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another a
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
โ Scribed by Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0735211027
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โฆ Synopsis
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine , Elle , the Millions , Nylon , and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
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...
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