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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky audiobook
- By: Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Narrator: Adjoa Andoh
- Category: Cultural Heritage, Fiction
- Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Audiobook Summary
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 of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In “The Future Looks Good,” three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in “Light,” a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to “fix the equation of a person” – with rippling, unforeseen repercussions.
Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
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Adjoa Andoh is the narrator of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky audiobook that was written by Lesley Nneka Arimah
About the Author(s) of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah is the author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Full Details
| Narrator | Adjoa Andoh |
| Length | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Author | Lesley Nneka Arimah |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781524751449 |
Subjects
The publisher of the What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: Nigeria, Nigerian, Caine Prize, father daughter relationships, mother daughter relationships, short story collection, magical realism, sex, love, romance, Africa, African writers, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, coming of age, identity, race, immigration, family, sisters, cousins, pregnancy, ghosts, grief, death, realism, Minneapolis, short stories, teenagers, women, young women, fall, what it means when a man falls from the sky, fiction, novels, fiction books, literature, books fiction, realistic fiction books, Fiction, Cultural Heritage, Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Cultural Heritage, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524751449.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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