One such powerful example is “Light”, narrated from the perspective of Enebeli, in which his wife goes to study - and later work - in America. These small insights into their lives were extremely poignant and powerful. Arimah captures quiet moments between fathers, daughters, mothers, sons, husbands and wives, and packs them full of emotion.
The messages - if there at all - are subtle. But it was so refreshing to sit down and read a collection of unpretentious short stories about people and relationships.ĭespite containing magical realism, dallying in historical fiction, and experimenting with dystopia, the stories in this book are not drowning in dark metaphors and dreamy prose.
These stories are fragments, really scenes from family life in Nigeria and among Nigerian expats in America. I can see why it might not appeal to everyone. The Goodreads ratings haven't been great and, honestly, it didn't sound as exciting as, say, Her Body and Other Parties. Of all the critically-acclaimed books I've been eager to read this year, I have to say What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky fell pretty low down on the list. "Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.
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