The chameleon girl
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Set mostly in sunny Dakar, The Chameleon Girl is the story of a woman of dual identities confronting her parents’ past amid secrets, stereotypes and cross-cultural family tensions.
A dazzling accomplished debut collection explores the ties that binds 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 her hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild", a disastrous night out shifts a teena..
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In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. He traveled home with an elusive mission: to learn the fate of his uncle Emmanuel, his namesake, who disappeared in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. A conflict that left so many families..
