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December 2009, EDITOR'S PICK OF THE MONTH

Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

Tue, Dec 01, 2009

Uwem Akpan was born in southern Nigeria. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. In 2007, he began a teaching assignment at a seminary in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Each of the five stories in this uplifting but heartbreaking collection bears witness to the extraordinary resilience of children as they try to come to terms with the harsh, sometimes brutal, reality of life in present-day Africa. To say this, however, is not to pigeonhole this audiobook, as the

Akpan, Uwem. Say You're One of Them. 2009. Read by Robin Miles, Dion Graham, and Kevin Free. 10 compact disks. 11 hrs. 9 mins. Sound Library/BBC Audiobooks America. 978-1-60788-366-1. $110.99. *SA

 

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By Francine Levitov

Francine Levitov was a high school English teacher and had a second career in law as a New York public defense attorney before discovering audiobooks. Now in her third professional reincarnation, she is a former KLIATT audiobook reviewer and, along with Jean Palmer, a founding co-editor of SoundCommentary.com.

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