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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky

by Lesley Nneka Arimah

Kirkus Prize (Fiction) · 2017 · Winner
Riverhead Booksliterary-fictionISBN 9780735224797

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Kirkus Prize (Fiction)Fiction2017Winner

About This Book

Twelve stories drawing on Nigerian and diasporic experience, ranging from fabulist to realist. Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

About the Author

Lesley Nneka ArimahNigerian-American

Lesley Nneka Arimah is a Nigerian-American author and the winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction for her debut short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for the same collection.

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