What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Unabridged) What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Unabridged)

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE

WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE

WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

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 repercussions. 

Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
AA
Adjoa Andoh
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:19
hr min
RELEASED
2017
April 4
PUBLISHER
Penguin Audio
SIZE
164.7
MB

Customer Reviews

gg.s.y ,

Beautiful writing, sloppy audiobook

The writing and narration of this collection is outstanding, but there are no titles of the audio tracks and some stories are split between multiple tracks.

It’s 2021 and that’s not acceptable.

If the book is updated with the points I’ve noted, I’ll gladly change my rating to 5 stars.

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