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A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world - from the award-winning author of Open City. Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.. A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speaks out from a pulsing metropolis.. We're invited to experience these events and others through the eyes and ears of Tunde, a West African man working as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, a traveler, drawn to many different kinds of stories: stories from history and epic; stories of friends, family, and strangers; stories found in books and films.
About the Author
I was born to Nigerian parents and grew up in Lagos. My mother taught French. My father was a business executive who exported chocolate. The first book I read (I was six) was an abridgment of Tom Sawyer. At fifteen I published cartoons regularly in Prime People, Nigeria's version of Vanity Fair. Two years later I moved to the United States. Since then, I've spent most of my time studying art history, except for an unhappy year in medical school. I currently live in Brooklyn.
