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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils 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
feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister
takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't
be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty
in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking
advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.
In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special
fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew
about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young
girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible
scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously
unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular
collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and
Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for
children of life in Africa.
Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost
unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing
shortof transcendent.
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