Description: A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke’s masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste systemFifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the day his father will be made village head. He will return to school and maybe even go on to university; his mother will no longer have to break her back foraging wild food to sell at market; they will have the money to build a fine tomb for his aunt Okike; and his family’s status as ohu ma, the lowest Igbo caste, won’t matter anymore. But when his father is passed over for a younger man, breaking tradition, Dimkpa realizes that he must make his own fate.Journeying from his small village in rural Nigeria, to Lagos, Awka, and home again, Dimkpa learns that no money is easy money, that superstition runs deep, that knowledge is power, and that sometimes it is better to live in the present than to always be chasing a future just out of reach.The Liquid Eye of a Moon is by turns hilarious and poignant, capturing all the messiness of adolescence, and the difficulty of making your own way in a world that seeks to oppress you.
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Type: Novel
Book Title: Liquid Eye of a Moon : a Novel
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CATAPULT
Topic: Small Town & Rural, Coming of Age
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Uchenna Awoke
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
