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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky is a collection of short stories by Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah, initially published in April 2017 by Riverhead Books and Tinder Press (UK), then republished in Nigeria by Farafina Books in November 2017.
Complete summary of Lesley Nneka Arimah's What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of What It Means When a Man Falls from...
Apr 4, 2017 · What it Means When A Man Falls From the Sky is a story about how mathematicians have figured out a formula to fix the effects of trauma and grief. The results of this in a future world separated by class are not what it seems, and the story left me thinking about it for a long time.
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Apr 5, 2017 · Lesley Nneka Arimah begins her remarkable debut collection, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, with a stunner of a story. "The Future Looks Good" opens with Ezinma, a young woman in...
Jan 5, 2021 · “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” takes on a number of topics—grief, privilege, climate change (a source of displacement), and science/faith—without getting bogged down by any one in particular. As the title suggests, a man falls from the sky in the opening pages, which hints at a problem in the infinite formula.
Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her.
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Apr 6, 2017 · The daughters, wives and mothers in Lesley Nneka Arimah's remarkable debut collection find themselves in extraordinary situations: a woman whose mother's ghost appears to have stepped out of a...
