{"product_id":"9780358639701-floating-in-a-most-peculiar-way-a-memoir","title":"Chude - Sokei Louis - Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Floating In A Most Peculiar Way A Memoir\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Chude - Sokei Louis\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780358639701\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 240 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/1\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chude - Sokei Louis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51593101345073,"sku":"IN-G-9780358639701","price":14.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780358639701.jpg?v=1751452899","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780358639701-floating-in-a-most-peculiar-way-a-memoir","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}