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“E.C. Osondu is just a guy with a definite mind and an excellent hearing, writing from essential places.” —Jonathan Franzen, author of Independence and The Corrections“With watchful question and delicate wit, [Osondu] portrays…our distinctive capability for hope and hopelessness folded together.” —Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior and VeronicaThis assortment of vibrant, compulsively readable tales represents the introduction of Nigerian author E.C. Osondu, champion of this year's Caine Prize for African Writing. Within the custom of Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M.