Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
A Memoir
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Format: Book
Description: pages cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
Subjects:
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.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.
Nigeria, Eastern -- Biography.
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.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.
Nigeria, Eastern -- Biography.
ISBN:
1328841588
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Chude-Sokei, Louis | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | Out (Due: 5/1/2024) |
BIOGRAPHY Chude-Sokei, Louis | Sandhills Indoors | Biography | Out (Due: 4/22/2024) |