Chude - Sokei Louis
Chude - Sokei Louis - Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir - Paperback
Chude - Sokei Louis - Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir - Paperback
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Description: The astonishing 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 searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming - to - America story The first time Chude - Sokei realizes that he is first son of the first son of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie's strict religious household in Jamaica where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: Is this the boy? Is this him? Chude - Sokei's immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime Jackie O of Biafra finally sends for him to come live with her. In Inglewood Los Angeles on the eve of gangsta rap and the L a riots it's as if he's fallen to earth. In this world anything alien definitely Chude - Sokei's secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie is a danger and his yearning to become a Black American gets deeply sometimes absurdly complicated. Ultimately it is a boisterous pan - African family of honorary aunts uncles and cousins that becomes his secret society teaching him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness but Blacknesses in his America.
Title: Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir
Author(s): Chude - Sokei Louis
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358639701
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2022
Description: The astonishing 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 searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming - to - America story The first time Chude - Sokei realizes that he is first son of the first son of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie's strict religious household in Jamaica where he lives with other abandoned children. A visiting African has just fallen to his knees to shake him by the shoulders: Is this the boy? Is this him? Chude - Sokei's immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his traumatized mother who has her own extraordinary history as the onetime Jackie O of Biafra finally sends for him to come live with her. In Inglewood Los Angeles on the eve of gangsta rap and the L a riots it's as if he's fallen to earth. In this world anything alien definitely Chude - Sokei's secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie is a danger and his yearning to become a Black American gets deeply sometimes absurdly complicated. Ultimately it is a boisterous pan - African family of honorary aunts uncles and cousins that becomes his secret society teaching him the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness but Blacknesses in his America.
Title: Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir
Author(s): Chude - Sokei Louis
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358639701
Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2022
