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Genre/Form: | Short stories Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Atta, Sefi. News from home. Northampton, Mass. : Interlink Books, 2010 (OCoLC)760988738 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sefi Atta |
ISBN: | 9781566568036 156656803X |
OCLC Number: | 472791782 |
Description: | 293 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Miracle worker -- Hailstones on Zamfara -- Spoils -- Lawless -- Twilight trek -- A temporary position -- Madness in the family -- Last trip -- News from home -- Green -- Yahoo Yahoo. |
Responsibility: | Sefi Atta. |
Abstract:
Atta lives in the U.S., and this powerful collection is about the search for home. In the irreverent title story, a young Nigerian gets a job as a nanny for a New Jersey family; she sneers at their African decor, but what dazzles her is the mall (scented toilet paper!). When Americans ask her where shes from, she ends up saying Africa; they dont know Nigeria. As gentle as it is horrifying, Last Trip is about a courier from Lagos who boards a plane for London with a half-million dollars worth of heroin in her stomach; her commission will help care for her disabled son. In Twilight Trek, illegals are on a modern biblical exodus across the blazing Sahara desert; the wry narrator is desperate (Death I could live with), even as he confronts horrific global prejudice (foreign embassies dont grant Africans like us visas).
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