Seesaw

Binding: Paperback
Description: A very funny intelligent deliberately and engagingly resistant and moving piece of writing Amit Chaudhuri A recovering writer his first novel having been littered with typos and selling only fifty copies Frank Jasper is plucked from obscurity in Port Jumbo in Nigeria by Mrs Kirkpatrick a white woman and wife of an American professor to attend the prestigious William Blake Program for Emerging Writers in Boston. Once there however it becomes painfully clear that he and the other Fellows are expected to meet certain obligations as representatives of their cultures. His colleagues veterans of residencies in Europe and America know how to play up to the stereotypes expected of them but Frank isn t interested in being the African Writer at William Blake any anyway there is another Fellow Barongo Akello Kabumba who happily fills that role. Eventually expelled from the fellowship for non - performance and non - participation Frank Jasper sets off on trip to visit his father's college friend in Nebraska where he learns not only surprising truths about his father but also how to parlay his experiences into a lucrative new career once he returns to Nigeria: as a commentator on American life. Seesaw is an energetic comedy of cultural dislocation and in its humour intelligence and piety - pricking it is a refreshing and hugely enjoyable act of literary rebellion.
Title: Seesaw
Author(s): Ogene Timothy
Publisher: Swift Press
Barcode: 9781800750180
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 8/4/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction