Okparanta Chinelo - Harry Sylvester Bird A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " Disarmingly funny." - The New York Times From the award - winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness Like Water comes a brilliant provocative up - to - the - minute satirical novel about a young white man's education and miseducation in contemporary America. Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward Pennsylvania with his parents Wayne and Chevy whom he greatly dislikes. They re racist xenophobic financially incompetent and they have quite a few secrets of their own. To Harry they represent everything wrong with this country. And his small town isn t any better. He witnesses racial profiling graffitied swastikas and White Power signs on his walk home from school. He can t wait until he's old enough to leave. When he finally is he moves straight to New York City where he feels he can finally live out his true inner self. In the city he meets and falls in love with Maryam a young Nigerian woman. But when Maryam begins to pull away Harry is forced to confront his identity as he never has before if he can. Brilliant funny original and unflinching Harry Sylvester Bird is a satire that speaks to all the most pressing tensions and anxieties of our time and of the history that has shaped us and might continue to do so.
Title: Harry Sylvester Bird A Novel
Author(s): Okparanta Chinelo
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063268609
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/6/2023