Japa and Other Stories
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Pages: 168
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 09/01/2024
ISBN: 9-780-8203-6727-9
List Price: $25.95
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These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, highly developed thieves, misadventures, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This book came out of a struggle to orient myself in the America of 2017 to 2021 when attitudes towards immigrants suddenly shifted. The JAPA characters explored in this book are immigrants who have no plans to return to their home country---for voluntary reasons--- though they retain a strong connection to home. The world is encountering this kind of immigrant for the first time.
Japa and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of stories so ravishingly voiced that we inhabit African immigrants in the USA as if their souls were our own, allowing us to intensely share—as indeed we all share in our universal humanity—the yearning to find a self, an identity, a place in the universe. Iheoma Nwachukwu is a literary artist of the highest order.
—Robert Olen Butler, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain