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Description
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school.... read more
First Sentence
Now that my eldest sister, Maisha, was twelve, none of us knew how to relate to her anymore.
Table of Contents
An Ex-mas Feast
Fattening for Gabon
What Language is That?
Luxurious Hearses
My Parents' Bedroom
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors
- Uwem Akpan (Author)
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