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.
Akpan\'s voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent..
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.
They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children.
The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents.
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.
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.
Food comes first.
Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can\'t be granted.
The eight-year-old narrator of An Ex-Mas Feast needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school.
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
