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He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection-to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries to the Utah residents who mock his father’s accent to evangelical religion to his Texas middle school’s crowd of African-Americans to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. Then one otherwise-ordinary morning, Tunde’s mother wakes him with a hug, bundles him and his baby brother into the car, and takes them away from the only home they’ve ever known.īut running away doesn’t bring her, or her children, any relief once Tunde’s father tracks them down, she flees to Nigeria, and Tunde never feels at home again. Tunde’s father, ever the optimist, works tirelessly chasing his American dream while his wife, lonely in Utah without family and friends, sinks deeper into schizophrenia. As he struggles to fit in, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues.

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Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can’t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won’t come off. Living in small-town Utah has always been an uncomfortable fit for Tunde Akinola’s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. **One of Time’s 32 Books You Need to Read This Summer**Īn “electrifying” ( Publishers Weekly) debut novel from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uneasy assimilation to American life.

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Read Elizabeth's full review of A PARTICULAR KIND OF BLACK MAN This critically acclaimed, Whiting Award–winning, nuanced meditation on diaspora, identity, and mental illness is a powerful read that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page. It’s only once Tunde reaches Morehouse College that he can escape the pressures of his father’s ideal-to be a particular “successful and benign” Black man-and carve a path for himself. As Tunde’s family fractures-his mother, displaying signs of mental illness, returns to Nigeria, and Tunde’s father hits one obstacle after another while pursuing the American Dream-his own sense of identity and mental well-being become equally precarious. In a sea of white neighbors, Tunde’s family stands out, and at home, his parents try but fail to mask their unhappiness. For Tope Folarin’s hero, Tunde Akinola, these experiences of alienation and struggle are even more keenly felt as a Nigerian American child of immigrants living in Utah. Written with Susan Abulhawa’s distinctive “richly detailed, beautiful, and resonant” ( Publishers Weekly) prose, this powerful novel presents a searing, darkly funny, and wholly unique portrait of a Palestinian woman who refuses to be a victim.Įlizabeth’s Pick: Many coming-of-age novels explore feelings of disconnect and uncertainty in the face of challenges throughout adolescence.

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Nahr’s subversive humor and moral ambiguity will resonate with fans of My Sister, The Serial Killer, and her dark, contemporary struggle places her as the perfect sister to Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon.

In this “beautiful.urgent” novel ( The New York Times), Nahr, a young Palestinian woman, fights for a better life for her family as she travels as a refugee throughout the Middle East.Īs Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. “Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden worlds for us.” -Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

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