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020			_a978-978-54609-4-0
100			_aArimah, Lesley Nneka
245		0	_aWhat it Means When a Man Falls From The Sky
260			_aNigeria
260			_bKachifo Ltd
260			_c2017
300			_a194
520			_aA 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.
650			_aCultural Heritage
650			_aFiction
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