Oprah has chosen Say You're One of them by Uwem Akpan as a 2009 selection for her book club. It is available in the library.
" Awe is the only appropriate response to Uwem Akpan's stunning debut, a collection of five stories so ravishing and sad that I regret ever wasting superlatives on fiction that was merely very good.... Akpan's characters are ordinary, flawed, sometimes funny kids who happen to be caught in a nightmare....The book should be depressing, but the blazing humanity of the characters and the brilliance of Akpan's artistry make this one of the year's most exhilirating reads."--Jennifer Reese Entertainment Weekly
The book was published last year and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (African Region), was longlisted for the Story Prize, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. It was listed as one of the best books of 2008 by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book Club, and Entertainment Weekly, to name a few. Akpan was born in Nigeria. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan several years ago.
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