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Author Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- author. Title Floating in a most peculiar way / Louis Chude-Sokei. Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. 2021 Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Superior adult nonfiction 305.8 C471f AVAILABLE Descript xiii, 219 pages ; 24 cm Note Nonfiction. Contents Future legend -- Space oddity -- Heroes -- Life on Mars -- Suffragette City -- Absolute beginners (part 1) -- All the young dudes -- We are the dead -- This is not America -- Young Americans -- Absolute beginners (part 2) -- African night flight -- The man who fell to Earth. Summary "The ... journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that adds ... depth to the coming-to-America story"-- Provided by publisher. Subject Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- -- Childhood and youth. Nigerian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography. Jamaican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography. Immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography. Nigerian Americans -- Race identity. Jamaican Americans -- Race identity. Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography. Nigeria, Eastern -- Biography. Genre Autobiographies. ISBN/ISSN 9781328841582 hardcover 1328841588 hardcover
