New York, my village : a novel
Book
First edition.
"A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition-both buoyant comedy and devastating satire-by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and-beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism-a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope"--
Available copies
- 12 of 13 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 13 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31004151815961 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31005500434537 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31006151847738 |
Available - |
| Irvington Public Library | FIC AKPAN, U (Text) Fiction |
31012154378911 |
Available - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | FIC AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31024153777720 |
Checked out 05/17/2024 |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31018155620912 |
Available - |
| New Rochelle Public Library | AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31019156685540 |
Available - |
| Ossining Public Library | FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31021153501662 |
Available - |
| Somers Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31031151969076 |
Available - |
| Warner Library | FICTION AKPAN (Text) Fiction |
31033152102061 |
Available - |
| Next 10 » | |||
