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020			_a1644450542 _q(paperback)
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092			_aNKWETI, _bNANA
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aNkweti, Nana, _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aShort stories. _kSelections.
245	1	0	_aWalking on cowrie shells : _bstories / _cNana Nkweti.
264		1	_aMinneapolis, Minnesota : _bGraywolf Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a185 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIt takes a village some say -- Rain check at MomoCon -- The devil is a liar -- Night becomes us -- Schoolyard cannibal -- It just kills you inside -- The statistician's wife -- Dance the Fiya dance -- The living infinite -- Kinks.
520			_aA virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize. In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In "The Devil Is a Liar," a pregnant pastor's wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother's traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child. In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves. In between these two ends of the spectrum there's everything from an aspiring graphic novelist at a comic con to a murder investigation driven by statistics to a story organized by the changing hairstyles of the main character. Pulling from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels, Nkweti showcases the complexity and vibrance of characters whose lives span Cameroonian and American cultures. A dazzling, inventive debut, Walking on Cowrie Shells announces the arrival of a superlative new voice. -- (Amazon)
586			_a"Finalist for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing"--Front cover.
650		0	_aRace relations _vFiction. _97122
650		0	_aZombies _vFiction. _919664
650		0	_aReligion _vFiction. _9169935
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vFiction. _93756
650		0	_aCameroonians _vFiction.
650		0	_aShort stories, American _y21st century. _973294
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
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