An ordinary wonder / Buki Papillon.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First cloth editionDescription: 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1643137816
- 9781643137810
- Intersex people -- Fiction
- Gender-nonconforming people -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Nigeria -- Fiction
- Yoruba (African people) -- Nigeria -- Fiction
- Yoruba (African people) -- United States -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
- Mythology, African -- Fiction
- Nigeria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | PAPILLON BUKI | Available | 33111010672992 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
**WINNER OF THE MAYA ANGELOU AWARD**
A Massachusetts Book Award "Fiction Honor"
An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl.
Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self.
Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever.
Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer.
An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.
"My name is Otolorin. I've been called monster. Within dark valleys of flesh I defy the given - a snake curled in upon itself, two-in-one, mythical and shunned. Yet, in that magic place between worlds, in the realm where the great mother gives milk to her offspring, I become like a goddess. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole"--Provided by publisher.