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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

Lesley Nneka Arimah

Start date: September 30, 2017

Finish date: October 12, 2017

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Jan 10, 2024 Nadine in NY Jones rated it liked it

Shelves: literary-schmiterary, fiction, ohno-its-magical-realism, fantasy-and-sci-fi, horror, audio, short-stories, is-it-real-or-is-it-memorex

I had forgotten - or perhaps I never realized - that these were short stories, so I was unpleasantly surprised when I started reading, and BOOM the story ended and a completely new story started.

The first few stories are very same same: an adolescent girl butts heads with her mother or does not have a mother, she bucks societies rules, and something happens as a result. Sometimes the girls are American with Nigerian mothers, or American visiting Nigerian relatives, or the girl is Nigerian and t ...more

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Sep 11, 2017 s_evan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, book-group-books, short-stories

This collection of short stories is really varied, with some including magical realism, others science fiction/apocalyptic futures, and one being so relatable to my own childhood experience, though set in Nigeria. She also delves into many conglomerations of familial relationships, and dabbles in same-sex romantic relationships so not all are straight (so refreshing!). But it is not these factors that make the stories so well-written. She has many sentences that read as zingers of truth, and the ...more

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Nov 09, 2017 Kate rated it really liked it

So well done, but all so devastating.

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Apr 30, 2017 Catherine marked it as to-read

Aug 13, 2020 Brooke Williams rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020-reads, 2020-book-bingo, read-a-book-with-kara

Jul 29, 2017 Jotong marked it as to-read

Aug 04, 2017 Steph S rated it it was amazing

Shelves: short-stories, audiobooks, favorites, read-the-world, 2017, contemporary-literary-fiction, africa, magic-realism, author-female, black-books-matter