01639cam a2200325 i 4500 548410060 TxGeo 20220207120000.0 210521s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020944193 9781644450543 trade pbk. 1644450542 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1182587640 TxGeo rda Nkweti, Nana. Walking on cowrie shells / Nana Knweti. Minneapolis, MN : Graywolf Press, [2021] 185 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In her ... genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story 'It Takes a Village, Some Say,' Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In 'The Devil Is a Liar,' a pregnant pastor's wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother's traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child"--Publisher marketing. 20220224. Cameroonian diaspora Fiction. National characteristics, Cameroonian Fiction. Cameroonians United States Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Short stories. QS5