This is another very good story collection that came out last year, by the writer Lesley Nneka Arimah who grew up in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria. It’s going to be very hard to not compare her to Chimamanda Adichie, but why they have some similarities in background and biography, I think the comparison is at best problematic. Instead what we have here is a handful of really interesting stories that sometimes are short and impactful and other times are longer and feel […]
Extraordinary Mathmatics
If you aren’t listening to the Levar Burton Reads podcast, you are denying yourself so much joy and comfort. Following the advice of Keh_squared on Twitter, I listened to episode 5 of Levar Burton Reads. Lavar Burton read Lesley Nneka Arimah’s award winning short story “What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky.” And then I listened again, and again for a third time. I found a PDF of the short story and read it. It might be one of my favorite books […]