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I selected Voice of America for the Book Riot 2015 Read Harder Challenge: An Author from Africa and read it in March for BB's 50 Shades of Green challenge. Each short story details intersections between Nigerian characters and their ideas of, expectations for, and conflicts with life in America. While I don't usually go in for short stories, this collection was so approachable. Osondu's characters, while perhaps not always likeable, are appealing and realistically human in their struggles. Magic
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This debut collection of 18 short stories (all of which I believe were previously published in various literary journals and magazines) combine to paint a vivid picture of the lives of everyday Nigerians and of Nigerian immigrants to America. (Nigerians are by far the largest African immigrant nationality in the U.S. and I happen to live in one of the largest concentrations of them.) The title is very apt, as almost every story has some kind of connection to America, even if it's just as a roads
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Apr 05, 2015
Stacy
marked it as to-read
