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Scale Boy: An African Childhood

Scale Boy: An African Childhood - Hardcover

by Patrice Nganang
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patrice NganangPublish date:2026-01-20Pages:464
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374614515ISBN-10:374614512UPC:9780374614515Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Memoirs, AfricaBook Topic:CentralSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.35Product ID:SC78A13A6B

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa--complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374614515ISBN-10:374614512UPC:9780374614515Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Memoirs, AfricaBook Topic:CentralSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.35Product ID:SC78A13A6B
Patrice Nganang was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His novel Dog Days received the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand Prix littéraire de Afrique noire. He is also the author of Mount Pleasant (FSG, 2016), When the Plums Are Ripe (FSG, 2019), and A Trail of Crab Tracks (FSG, 2022). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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