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Love is power, or something like that : stories / A. Igoni Barrett.
Van Pelt Library PR9387.9.B365 A6 2013
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LIBRA PR9387.9.B365 A6 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrett, A. Igoni, 1979-
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nigeria--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Nigeria.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- A collection of short stories set in modern-day Nigeria, including "The Worst Thing That Happened," in which an old-age pensioner with numerous children struggles to find someone to pick her up from cataract surgery.
- Contents:
- The worst thing that happened
- Dream chaser
- The shape of a full circle
- Love is power, or something like that
- My smelling mouth problem
- Trophy
- The little girl with budding breasts and a bubblegum laugh
- Godspeed and Perpetua
- A Nairobi story of comings and goings.
- ISBN:
- 9781555976408
- 1555976409
- OCLC:
- 812068776
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