What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Ratings17
Average rating4.2
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Ratings17
Average rating4.2
"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"--
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For the Read Harder Challenge 2017: Read a collection of stories by a woman. I am not usually a fan of short stories, but this was quirky, moving, and full of interesting twists.
So many great collections of short stories lately. This book is incredible. “Windfalls” and “Who Will Greet You at Home” feel like snippets from much larger stories. Arimah manages to switch from modern day to futuristic dystopian to mythology without missing a beat. I'll be preordering her novel.
So, so, so good. Instant “to reread” designation.
“There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warmth and context and history and each finds that they're arguing with a stranger.”
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