Harry Sylvester Bird - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harry Sylvester Bird write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2022-07-12. Harry Sylvester Bird available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America. Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have quite a few secrets of their own. To Harry, they represent everything wrong with this country. And his small town isn’t any better. He witnesses racial profiling, graffitied swastikas, and White Power signs on his walk home from school. He can’t wait until he’s old enough to leave. When he finally is, he moves straight to New York City, where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self. In the city, he meets and falls in love with Maryam, a young Nigerian woman. But when Maryam begins to pull away, Harry is forced to confront his identity as he never has before—if he can. Brilliant, funny, original, and unflinching, Harry Sylvester Bird is a satire that speaks to all the most pressing tensions and anxieties of our time—and of the history that has shaped us and might continue to do so.
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Happiness, Like Water write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2013. Happiness, Like Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A moving debut story collection centered on Nigerian women, as they build lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, and the burden and strength of love.
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Udala Trees write by Chinelo Okparanta. This book was released on 2015. Under the Udala Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by her mother's stories of war and Nigeria's folktale traditions, Under the Udala Trees is Chinelo Okparanta's deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly
If One of Us Should Fall
If One of Us Should Fall - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If One of Us Should Fall write by Nicole Terez Dutton. This book was released on 2012-08-29. If One of Us Should Fall available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2011 Cave Canem Poetry Prize “Nicole Terez Dutton’s fierce and formidable debut throbs with restless beauty and a lyrical undercurrent that is both empowered and unpredictable. Every poem is unsettling in that delicious way that changes and challenges the reader. There is nothing here that does not hurtle forward.” —Patricia Smith Chosen by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association as a 2013 Honor Book Winner for poetry.
The Unfortunates
The Unfortunates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unfortunates write by J K Chukwu. This book was released on 2023-02-28. The Unfortunates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing. Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year, she already feels like a failure: her body is too much, her love life is nonexistent, she’s not Nigerian enough for her family, her grades are subpar, and, well, the few Black classmates she has are vanishing—or dying. Sahara herself is close to giving up: depression has been her longtime “Life Partner." She believes that this narrative—taking the form of an irreverent, no-holds-barred “thesis” addressed to the powerful University Committee that will judge her—may be her last chance to document the Unfortunates' experience before she joins their ranks...But maybe, just maybe, she and her complex community of BIPOC women aren't ready to go out without a fight.
