Say You're One of Them 3 Stories

Uwem Akpan, Robin Miles, Dion Graham

eAudio - 2008

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils 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 fees in 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. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker 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. In 'What Language Is That?' two little Ethiopian...

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Published
Hachette Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Uwem Akpan, Robin Miles, Dion Graham
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size77 GB
Parts3
ISBN9781600243004
Release Date6/19/2008
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size77 GB
ISBN9781600243004
Release Date6/19/2008