- Short stories, Fiction, family life, Fiction, short stories (single author), Families
Short stories. Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love.
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Earnest, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 202
- Publisher
- Mariner Books, Portobello Books, Granta
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781846274855
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