{"product_id":"say-youre-one-of-them","title":"Say You're One of Them","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSay You're One of Them\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eUwem Akpan\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780316086370\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBack Bay Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Paperback Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e384\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eUwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize theperils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of \"An Ex-Mas Feast\" needs only enough money to buy books and pay feesin order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the second of his stories published in a \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing shortof transcendent.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Say You're One of Them | Uwem Akpan | Paperback | 9780316086370 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1708950","offer_id":50834900123906,"sku":"1708950","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71885LcZJiL.jpg?v=1792642355","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/say-youre-one-of-them","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}