Lesley Nneka Arimah

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

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Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Time Magazine, Elle, the Millions, Nylon, and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.

In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In “The Future Looks Good,” three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in “Light,” a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to “fix the equation of a person” – with rippling, unforeseen…
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    I felt jilted, and in that sly way infatuation can flip,
    the turning over of a mattress to hide an embarrassing stain, I began to despise her.
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    seeing
    the woman my father left us for. She came every few Sundays, when the weighty sin of fornicating with a married man became too heavy to bear.
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    The day after we met, she sent a missile of shit wrapped in newspaper like a gift. It exploded on the side of the house, scattering chunks and leaving a streak of brown. My mother, furious, railed about the neighbors (never at them, mind you) and lamented that they just didn’t make house girls like they used to. I, on the other hand, fell in love.

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