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    "title": "A Particular Kind of Black Man",
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    "description": "A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American life. \n\nLiving in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola\u2019s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can\u2019t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won\u2019t come off. As he struggles to fit in and find his place in the world, he finds little solace from his parents who are grappling with their own issues.\n\nTunde\u2019s father, ever the optimist, works tirelessly chasing his American dream while his wife, lonely in Utah without family and friends, sinks deeper into schizophrenia. Then one otherwise-ordinary morning, Tunde\u2019s mother wakes him with a hug, bundles him and his baby brother into the car, and takes them away from the only home they\u2019ve ever known.\n\nBut running away doesn\u2019t bring her, or her children, any relief from the demons that plague her; once Tunde\u2019s father tracks them down, she flees to Nigeria, and Tunde never feels at home again. He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection \u2014 to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries; to the Utah residents who mock his father\u2019s accent; to evangelical religion; to his Texas middle school\u2019s crowd of African-Americans; to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. In so doing, he discovers something that sends him on a journey away from everything he has known.\n\nSweeping, stirring, and perspective-shifting, A Particular Kind of Black Man is a beautiful and poignant exploration of the meaning of memory, manhood, home, and identity as seen through the eyes of a first-generation Nigerian-American.",
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