21 Books for Your Summer Reading List
Calculating capitalists, lunching ladies, fractured families
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Born on a Tuesday
By Elnathan John
256 pages;
Grove Press, Black Cat
A Nigerian bildungsroman featuring Dantala, a street kid thrust calamitously into the arms of a gentle sheikh, who thereafter faces Islamic extremism and the cruelty of his own country.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 05/15/2016
