Say You're One of Them
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384 pages
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils 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 fees in 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 bo
ISBN: 9780316113786
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Oprah Winfrey
Media & Journalism"Masterfully both captures the innocence and the horror of the unimaginable events these children witness."
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