- Social life and customs, Nigerian Americans, Immigrants, Fiction
Married in Nigeria, moved to Nebraska, Ifi and Job believed they would be able to keep up the appearance to relatives and friends back home that their marriage was not based on a lie: that Job was a respected doctor in America and Ifi would become his nurse.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Julie Iromuanya
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781566893978
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