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Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo

September 5, 2017

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Stay With Me begins in the middle, which is when, after four years of marriage but no children Akin is being pushed by his mother to take another wife. He loves Yejide, but to not have children is ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, contemporary life, cultural, debut, Knopf, literary

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews

August 25, 2017

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Plausibility is a subjective concept, especially in reading. There are premises, plots, and characters in novels I love that make other readers put the book down. Today’s mini-reviews exemplify the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: 1970s, Africa, childhood, mini-reviews, Pegasus, Putnam

Under the Udala Trees

October 5, 2015

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  In Under the Udala Trees Ijeoma is only twelve years old when the civil war in Nigeria begins and her mother must leave her behind while she tries to establish a life for them in the north, a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, cultural, debut, historical fiction, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, literary, nigeria

A Dancer in the Dust

August 22, 2014

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  Ray Campbell is a risk assessment manager when A Dancer in the Dust begins but it is his time as an aid worker in Africa decades ago that forms the foundation of the novel. As a young man assigned ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, Mysterious Press, mystery

The Forgiven

September 24, 2012

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The suburbs of Tangiers were ruined, but the gardens were still there. And so were the crippled lemon trees and olives, the dogged disillusion and empty factories, the smell of seething young men. A ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: Africa, book clubs, cultural, Hogarth, literary

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