Say You're One of Them Uwem Akpan

Say You're One of Them

Author: Uwem Akpan
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Book Title
Say You're One of Them
Author
Uwem Akpan
ISBN
9780316086370
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Uwem AkpanPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublished: 09/18/2009ISBN: 9780316086370Pages: 360Weight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10dAccelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128867 / Say You're One of ThemReading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.

In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Uwem Akpan
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 09/18/2009
ISBN: 9780316086370
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128867 / Say You're One of Them
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord.

In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Uwem Akpan
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 09/18/2009
ISBN: 9780316086370
Pages: 360
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 128867 / Say You're One of Them
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15