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Author Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- author.

Title Floating in a most peculiar way / Louis Chude-Sokei.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

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 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    92 Chude-Sokei,L CHU    Available
1 copy being processed for GDL Central Library Non-Fiction.
Description xiii, 219 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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Contents Future Legend -- Space Oddity -- Heroes -- Life on Mars -- Suffragette City -- Absolute Beginners (Part 1) -- All the Young Dudes -- We Are the Dead -- This Is Not America -- Young Americans -- Absolute Beginners (Part 2) -- African Night Flight -- The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Summary "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 Angeles--a fierce and funny memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Chude-Sokei, Louis Onuorah, 1967- -- Childhood and youth.
Nigerian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Jamaican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography.
Nigeria, Eastern -- Biography.
Nigerian Americans -- Race identity.
Jamaican Americans -- Race identity.
ISBN 9781328841582 (hardcover)
1328841588
9780358395027
035839502X
9780358394587
0358394589

 
    
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