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Original Title:	Say You're One of Them
ISBN:	0316113786 (ISBN13: 9780316113786)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Benin Kenya Ethiopia …more Rwanda Nigeria Africa …less
Literary Awards:	Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2008), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2009), PEN Open Book Award (2009), Paris Book Festival for Compilation/Anthology (2010), Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction (2009) Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in Africa (2009)

Say You're One of Them

Uwem Akpan

Hardcover | Pages: 358 pages

Rating: 3.52 | 14134 Users | 2339 Reviews

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Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent.

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Title	:	Say You're One of Them
Author	:	Uwem Akpan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 358 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2009 by Little, Brown and Company (first published June 5th 2008)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Short Stories

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This isn't a work to which I can assign stars- it would be like ranking tourist visits to concentration camps- this one was more interesting, that one was more intact, the other had the best museum shop, when in fact they are all horrific and unforgettable. To further the analogy, reading Uwem Akpan was like reading Elie Wiesel- devastating and heartbreaking, with details as vivid and palpable as yesterday. The difference is that decades of history and a Western world romance with WWII have



It's difficult to justify giving this book five stars as there are so many problems with it. But to give it less would not acknowledge that its flaws and difficulties are outweighed by how it opens your eyes, gives you clear vision into things you didn't even know you'd been shortsighted about before.Firstly, two of the stories are novellas of considerable length and extremely difficult to read. This is because, in an effort to give local flavour to the dialogue, letters are transposed, French

This book is exhausting to read. It pulls you in every direction. The lives of the children you witness through the writing are horrendous and the acts they see and decisions they have to make are unimaginable. From that perspective - the one of emotional involvement with the protagonists, I would give it a straight five stars. However, there are a few things I felt detracted from the stories - hence my slightly lower rating. Firstly, I struggled with the level of dialect in the dialogues. While

Confession (i don't mean to use that term ironically at all--this book was written by a Jesuit priest!): i did not read the final story because i had read it when it was published in a literary magazine some years ago. And honestly i've had it with this book...his writing is almost too powerful and the stories were almost too stressful for me. I can't believe this is a debut collection. I fear his next book but will likely be one of the first to snatch it up.

I'm so angry with this book I could spit. I can't even rate it, I'm so angry with it.I certainly would never recommend it (even though I think everyone should read it).It is an important book to read.I'm glad I read it even though it was the most horrific, awful, despairing, bleak, pessimistic, horrific, sad thing I've read since...ever.Glad is not the right word; not at all the right word. All those other words are right.5=amazing?1=did not like it?Yes. Both.You can't like this; how can anyone

Again, I am cheating because I gave up on this book even though I marked it "read." These short stories are set somewhere in Africa, current time, and the horrors children face are depressing. The first story is about a family living under a tarp behind a store. One daughter is selling herself on the street to earn money to send her younger brother to school. He sniffs glue to keep from feeling hungry. The writing is difficult to read not only for content but structure. The second story is about