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There are no life lessons, no rationalizations of the bigotry and violence that exist in a diaspora so ravaged by white colonialism. We must look at the ...

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Herein lies the beauty of “Floating in a Most Peculiar Way”: It reveals how we carry trauma with us, how that trauma can cause us to hurt one ...

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In his totally original memoir, Louis Chude-Sokei captures the prejudices and tensions, pain and promise of being African in Jamaica and the United States.

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BU Today talked with him about Floating, which owes its title to a David Bowie lyric, and how in writing it he set out to reconcile the “ ...

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Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. Her anecdotes are ...

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In Inglewood, Los Angeles, on the eve of gangsta rap and the LA riots, it's as if he's fallen to Earth. In this world, anything alien—definitely Chude-Sokei's ...

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'Floating In A Most Peculiar Way' is a great read and a worthy addition to both the catalogue of books about the Biafran war and the lived ...

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Is this him?” Chude-Sokei's immersion in the politics of race and belonging across the landscape of the African diaspora takes a turn when his ...

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Louis Chude-Sokei. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (240p) ISBN 978-1-32884-158-2 ... Chude-Sokei writes of feeling like a stranger in his own land, ...

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byLouis Chude-Sokei ; A New York Times ; Details. ISBN-10: 0358639700. ISBN-13: 9780358639701. Publisher: Mariner Books Publish Date: 02/01/2022. Dimensions: 8.05 ...

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Louis Chude-Sokei draws the title of his memoir, "Floating in a Most Peculiar Way," from the lyrics of David Bowie's "Space Oddity," a song ...

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In his totally original memoir, Louis Chude-Sokei captures the prejudices and tensions, pain and promise of being African in Jamaica and the United States.

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Louis Chude-Sokei's memoir is a transnational coming of age story starting in the war-torn former nation Biafra, finding temporary refuge in Jamaica, and ...

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The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angelesa ...

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei | Arab News PK

Louis Chude-Sokei has such a unique coming of age story that spans across several continents beginning in the short-lived African nation of ...

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Feb. 2021. 240p. HMH, $27 (9781328841582). 979.4. REVIEW. First published December 1, 2020 (Booklist). This absorbing memoir from Chude-Sokei, ...