The Resource What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
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The item What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
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The item What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
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- Summary
- "A 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. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Contents
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- What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Glory
- What is a volcano?
- Redemption
- The future looks good
- War stories
- Wild
- Light
- Second chances
- Windfalls
- Who will greet you at home
- Buchi's girls
- Isbn
- 9780735211025
- Label
- What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Title
- What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Statement of responsibility
- Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A 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. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her"--
- Summary
- "Lesley Arimah emigrated from Nigeria to Louisiana at the age of thirteen, a disorienting transition that left her keenly attuned to the shock waves set in motion by displacement. In these twelve powerful stories that embrace magical-realist elements while deploying a powerfully empathetic understanding of character and circumstance, she explores how parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends, navigate conflicting cultures and struggle to reconcile conflicting desires, wants, and needs."--Provided by the publisher
- Award
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- Kirkus Prize for Fiction, 2017.
- Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story, 2018.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
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- 10554760
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Arimah, Lesley Nneka
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Interpersonal relations
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Literary
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- stories
- Label
- What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Glory
- What is a volcano?
- Redemption
- The future looks good
- War stories
- Wild
- Light
- Second chances
- Windfalls
- Who will greet you at home
- Buchi's girls
- Control code
- ocn956479959
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735211025
- Lccn
- 2016036303
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)956479959
- Label
- What it means when a man falls from the sky, Lesley Nneka Arimah
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- What it means when a man falls from the sky
- Glory
- What is a volcano?
- Redemption
- The future looks good
- War stories
- Wild
- Light
- Second chances
- Windfalls
- Who will greet you at home
- Buchi's girls
- Control code
- ocn956479959
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 230 pages
- Isbn
- 9780735211025
- Lccn
- 2016036303
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)956479959
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Literary
- trueFamily relationships
- trueHuman nature
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Short stories
- trueShort stories
- Short stories
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