ASIN: B01BUINJPS
Publisher: Electric Literature
Pages: 27
"Despite its Lagosian setting, when reading the opening pages of Igoni Barrett’s witty, socially insightful novel, Blackass, I am reminded of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis: a young man wakes up to the realization that he is no longer who he once was, but has become a different kind of “being.” In Barrett’s version, the young man goes to bed a black man and wakes up white. The family set-up is the same: the young man, his sister, his mother and father. A job on the line." - Chinelo Okparanta, Author of Under the Udala TreesAbout the Author: A. Igoni Barrett is the author of Blackass and Love Is Power, or Something Like That. He is the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He lives in Nigeria.About the Guest Editor: Chinelo Okparanta was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. A University of Iowa ...
