Name: Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
ISBN: 9781328841582

Louis Chude-Sokei

A gutting, gorgeous memoir of a pan-African childhood that tracks the author's migrations from the short-lived African nation known as Biafra, to Jamaica, to Los Angeles' harshest streets

A Memoir

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

Nick Gracilla

Chude-Sokei falls between establish cultural identities — born in the once Biafra, a childhood in Jamaica, then raised in both costs of the states, but primarily in LA. He navigates bewildering complexities between black immigrants, black but not Black American, Afro-Jamaicans, his family history to Biafra, his education, his homeland, and more.

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way A Memoir

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