Happiness, Like Water: Stories

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Winner of the O. Henry Award. &“A haunting and startlingly original collection of short stories about the lives of Nigerians both at home and in America.&”—Julie Otsuka, national bestselling author Here are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of love. Here are characters faced with dangerous decisions, children slick with oil from the river, a woman in love with another despite the penalties. Here is a world marked by electricity outages, lush landscapes, folktales, buses that break down and never start up again. Here is a portrait of Nigerians that is surprising, shocking, heartrending, loving, and across social strata, dealing in every kind of change. Here are stories filled with language to make your eyes pause and your throat catch. Happiness, Like Water introduces a true talent, a young writer with a beautiful heart and a capacious imagination. &“Astonishing. Okparanta&’s narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such lucidity and composure, that in each and every case the truths of their lives detonate deep inside the reader&’s heart, with the power and force of revelation."—Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author &“Intricate, graceful prose propels Okparanta&’s profoundly moving and illuminating book. I devoured these stories and immediately wanted more. This is an arrival.&”—NoViolet Bulawayo, award-winning author of We Need New Names &“Okparanta&’s prose is tender, beautiful and evocative. These powerful stories of contemporary Nigeria are told with compassion and a certain sense of humor. What a remarkable new talent.&”—Chika Unigwe, author of Night Dancer
Copyright:
2013

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210 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780544003378
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9780544003453
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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English
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Literature and Fiction
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