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02775aam a22004938i 4500 001 59106546444F11EC89A41A2526ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211113010011 008 210512t20222022nyub 000 1 eng 010 $a 2021022378 020 $a 0393881423 020 $a 9780393881424 035 $a (OCoLC)1233267039 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCO $d IHV $d JTH $d LMJ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ny 050 00 $a PR9387.9.A3935 $b N49 2022 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Akpan, Uwem, $e author. 245 10 $a New York, my village : $b a novel / $c Uwem Akpan. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2022] 300 $a 404 pages : $b maps ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "A daring first novel in the great picaresque tradition--both buoyant comedy and devastating satire--by the author of the best-selling story collection Say You're One of Them. Ekong Udousoro is a Nigerian editor undertaking a reckoning with the brutal recent history of his homeland by curating a collection of stories about the Biafran War. He is thrilled when a publishing fellowship gives him the opportunity to continue his work in Manhattan while learning the ins and outs of publishing. But while his sophisticated colleagues meet him with kindness and hospitality, he is soon exposed to the industry's colder, ruthlessly commercial underbelly, boorish and hostile neighbors, and--beneath a superficial cosmopolitanism--a bedrock of white cultural superiority and racist assumptions about Africa, its peoples, and worst of all, its food. Haunted by the devasting darkness of civil war and searingly observant about the myriad ways that tribalism defines life everywhere from the villages of Africa to the villages within New York City, New York, My Village is nevertheless full of heart, hilarity, and hope"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Nigerians $z New York $z New York $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Africans $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African diaspora $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Satirical literature. $2 lcgft 941 $a 12 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015840.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409041406.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314023007.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012012129.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030358.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221108010335.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630012828.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20211203011756.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20211203011135.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211203010347.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211202010713.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211113010114.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59106546444F11EC89A41A2526ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search