| Edition |
First Catapult edition. |
| Description |
342 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
When his father is passed over for village head, leaving their family as the lowest Igbo caste, fifteen-year-old Nigerian Dimkpa must make his own fate, learning that no money is easy money, superstition runs deep, knowledge is power and sometimes it's better to live in the present than chase a future out of reach. |
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"Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have to break her back foraging wild food to sell at market; they will have the money to build a fine tomb for his aunt Okike; and his family's status as ohu ma, the lowest Igbo caste, won't matter anymore. But when his father is passed over for a younger man, breaking tradition, Dimkpa realizes that he must make his own fate. Journeying from his small village in rural Nigeria, to Lagos, Awka, and home again, Dimkpa learns that no money is easy money, that superstition runs deep, that knowledge is power, and that sometimes it is better to live in the present than to always be chasing a future just out of reach."--Dust jacket |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Poverty -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Survival -- Fiction.
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Nigeria -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| ISBN |
9781646221905 (hardcover) |
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1646221907 (hardcover) |
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