![]() ![]() ![]() The twelve stories in “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky” are set in Nigeria, America, and a few fantastical realities recurring motifs include the Biafra War, and various configurations of Nigerian and Nigerian American families. ![]() She unflinchingly depicts the painful courses of correction her characters experience, while showing us that sometimes, albeit at tremendous costs, the fires find a way to burn on. Arimah renders each character with unceasing compassion, sparkling diction, and a wit that endures through even the direst of situations. Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, neighbors, friends, lovers, enemies love, jealousy, grief, tenderness, resentment, admiration, disappointment, understanding, self-loathing. In the last story of her debut collection “What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky,” Lesley Nneke Arimah writes: “Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.” Arimah’s stories are full of such girls at every stage of life, who possess every type of fire. ![]()
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