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An ordinary wonder
- Title
- An ordinary wonder / Buki Papillon.
- Author
- Papillon, Buki
- Publication
- New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021.
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-1240 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 313 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "My name is Otolorin. I've been called monster. Within dark valleys of flesh I defy the given - a snake curled in upon itself, two-in-one, mythical and shunned. Yet, in that magic place between worlds, in the realm where the great mother gives milk to her offspring, I become like a goddess. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Intersex people > Fiction
- Gender-nonconforming people > Fiction
- Dysfunctional families > Nigeria > Fiction
- Yoruba (African people) > Nigeria > Fiction
- Yoruba (African people) > United States > Fiction
- Immigrants > United States > Fiction
- Mythology, African > Fiction
- Dysfunctional families
- Gender-nonconforming people
- Immigrants
- Intersex people
- Manners and customs
- Mythology, African
- Yoruba (African people)
- Nigeria > Social life and customs > Fiction
- Nigeria
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Social problem fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-1240
- ISBN
- 1643137816
- 9781643137810
- OCLC
- 1236259662
- Author
- Papillon, Buki, author.
- Title
- An ordinary wonder / Buki Papillon.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First Pegasus book cloth edition.
- 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 21-1240