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001			on1056731361
003			OCoLC
005			20190912092456.0
008			190330t20192019nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2019012960
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dNHP _dOCLCO _dCG4 _dUNA _dNZAUC _dTCH _dOEL _dYDX _dYUS _dOCLCF _dNFG
019			_a1110021108
020			_a9781501171819 _qhardcover
020			_a150117181X _qhardcover
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035			_a(OCoLC)1056731361 _z(OCoLC)1110021108
042			_apcc
092			_aFolarin, _bTope
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aFolarin, Tope, _d1981- _eauthor.
245	1	2	_aA particular kind of Black man / _cTope Folarin.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a261 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola's family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can't escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won't come off. As he struggles to fit in and find his place in the world, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues. Tunde's father, ever the optimist, works tirelessly chasing his American dream while his wife, lonely in Utah without family and friends, sinks deeper into schizophrenia. Then one otherwise-ordinary morning, Tunde's mother wakes him with a hug, bundles him and his baby brother into the car, and takes them away from the only home they've ever known. But running away doesn't bring her, or her children, any relief from the demons that plague her; once Tunde's father tracks them down, she flees to Nigeria, and Tunde never feels at home again. He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection--to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries; to the Utah residents who mock his father's accent; to evangelical religion; to his Texas middle school's crowd of African-Americans; to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. In so doing, he discovers something that sends him on a journey away from everything he has known. Sweeping, stirring, and perspective-shifting, A Particular Kind of Black Man is a beautiful and poignant exploration of the meaning of memory, manhood, home, and identity as seen through the eyes of a first-generation Nigerian-American"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aNigerian Americans _vFiction.
650		0	_aChildren of immigrants _vFiction.
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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