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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

Lesley Nneka Arimah

Start date: September 30, 2017

Finish date: October 12, 2017

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Jul 22, 2019 Jessica rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle, short-stories

I had read a couple of short stories from this collection online and was really looking forward to reading this whole book. The two I read, which I still consider the standouts, are: "Who Will Greet You at Home" and "What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky."

The two stories I read online incorporate a fantastical element that is missing from most of the other stories in this collection. They're all very well written and unsettling, but I think I went into the collection expecting one thing ba ...more

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May 14, 2017 Melle rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-in-2017, ya, we-need-diverse-books, short-stories, short-pieces, immigrants, short-fiction, nigeria, adult

Wow! Lots of compelling stories -- some that read like Joyce Carol Oates meets Octavia Butler meets Shirley Jackson, some that read like mythology and folktales set in the real world, some that capture the weirdness of walking in two worlds, some that address heavy and ugly issues like incest and rape, and some that sharply and starkly capture the difficulties of being a woman, being in a family, being in society. This would be a great choice for an open-minded, wide-reading book group.

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