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"These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This book came out of a struggle to orient myself in the America of 2017 to 2021 when attitudes towards immigrants suddenly shifted. The JAPA characters explored in this book are immigrants who have no plans to return to their home country---for voluntary reasons--- though they retain a strong connection to home. The world is encountering this kind of immigrant for the first time"--
About the author
IHEOMA NWACHUKWU is a fiction writer and poet. He has won fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Michener Center, and the Chinua Achebe Center. His work has been published in
Ploughshares, the
Southern Review, the
Iowa Review, AGNI, Electric Literature, Crazyhorse, and other venues. Nwachukwu is an assistant professor at Eastern University and lives in Pennsylvania.
Summary
These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality.
