What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
“Narrator Adjoa Andoh sublimely intensifies the author’s already breathtaking prose into an irresistible, spectacular performance, as she effortlessly modulates her distinctive voice, picking up genders and generations, cadences and accents, and just as easily discards such details for the next scene, the next story.”
Library Journal (starred audio review)
Time Magazine Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2017
Elle Magazine Pick of 2017's Most Anticipated Books
Chicago Tribune Pick for Upcoming Books
Boston Globe Pick of Most Anticipated Books of 2017
Oprah Pick of Best Books for Spring
Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize
A National Book Foundation honoree for 5 under 35
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Leonard Prize
A Library Journal Best Audiobook of 2017
A Southern Living Magazine Pick of Best Books of 2017
An NPR Best Book of 2017
A London Guardian Best Book of the Year selection
A Bustle Pick of Best Books of 2017
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
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.
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