I this book because...
I fell in love with short stories in my preteen years. Chinua Achebe, Kola Onadipe, and Cyprian Ekwensi were my fictional gods until the passage of time brought the creative wonder woman, Alice Munro, into my life.
However, as a Nigerian, it was in Lesley Nneka Arimah’s narrative universe that I first saw myself as a speaking, living, welcome presence in the crazy world we live in.
I’m weird, like the characters in this collection. There was a time when fitting-in was a big question for me, and like the characters, I felt troubled by the ugly truth that may unfold. These 12 stories explore humanity in all its depressing details and messiness.
For me, Michelle Branch’s You Get Me is the perfect soundtrack for the stories in this collection.
3 authors picked What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
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…