Description

A haunting book about national identity, race, surrender, damage, dislocation, and freedom, Teju Cole’s Available Town seethes with intellect. It's a serious work by an essential new writer that has much to express about our nation and our world.Along the avenues of Manhattan, a Nigerian physician performing his residency walks endlessly, showing on his associations, his recent breakup together with his girlfriend, his present, his past. The impact of numerous encounters does nothing to assuage his feelings of solitude, although he's moving the parts of town. However it isn't merely a real scenery he addresses; Julius crisscrosses interpersonal place too, experiencing folks from various ethnicities and courses who'll offer information on his journey—which requires him to Brussels, for the Nigeria of his childhood, and in to the many unrecognizable areas of their own spirit.