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Floating in a most peculiar way
- Title
- Floating in a most peculiar way / Louis Chude-Sokei.
- Author
- Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967-
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 219 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story"--
- The first time Chude-Sokei realizes that he is 'first son of the first son' of a renowned leader of the bygone African nation is in Uncle Daddy and Big Auntie's strict religious household in Jamaica, where he lives with other abandoned children. When his mother, the onetime "Jackie O of Biafra," sends for him to come live with her in Inglewood, Los Angeles. In this world, anything alien-- such as Chude-Sykes's secret obsession with science fiction and David Bowie-- is a danger. His yearning to become a Black American gets deeply, sometimes absurdly, complicated. This is his memoir of the redemptive skill of navigating not just Blackness, but Blacknesses, in his America. -- adapted from jacket
- Subject
- Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- > Childhood and youth
- Nigerian Americans > California > Los Angeles > Biography
- Jamaican Americans > California > Los Angeles > Biography
- Immigrants > California > Los Angeles > Biography
- Nigerian Americans > Race identity
- Jamaican Americans > Race identity
- Immigrants
- Jamaican Americans
- Nigerian Americans
- Los Angeles (Calif.) > Biography
- Nigeria, Eastern > Biography
- California > Los Angeles
- Eastern Nigeria
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- Future Legend -- Space Oddity -- Heroes -- Life on Mars -- Suffragette City -- Absolute Beginners (Part 1) -- All the Young Dudes -- We Are the Dead -- This Is Not America -- Young Americans -- Absolute Beginners (Part 2) -- African Night Flight -- The Man Who Fell to Earth.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-143
- ISBN
- 9781328841582
- 1328841588
- LCCN
- 2020023320
- OCLC
- 1159621291
- Author
- Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- author.
- Title
- Floating in a most peculiar way / Louis Chude-Sokei.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-143