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Author:
Louis Chude-Sokei
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
February 2, 2021
The director of Boston Universityâs African American studies explores how his complicated life historyâfrom living in the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angelesâhas woven his even more complex identity.
What The Reviewers Say
... Chude-Sokei writes from that space outside, detailing with unflinching directness the confusion, isolation, horror and bizarre humor of his life as a child born to a high-ranking Biafran major father and a Jamaican mother in the midst of civil war in Nigeria.
From the start it is clear Floating in a Most Peculiar Way is going to be a journey of discovery like few others.
Searching for one’s identity can be a vertiginous experience, especially for an immigrant shuffling from one culture to another. In Floating in a Most Peculiar Way, Louis Chude-Sokei cannily captures this tumbling free fall through a variety of cultures as he negotiates what it means to be African in Jamaica and the United States.
... absorbing.
