02119cam a2200277 4500 1650432859 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780374610081 0374610088 0030119720 Axis360 TxAuBib Binyam, Maya. Hangman [Boundless]. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2023. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 HonoreeLong-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vulture, and BBCAn enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond.In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes, because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick me up.A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn’t recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone recognizes him, a man who calls him brother—setting him on a quest to find his real brother, who is dying.In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the story of that search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters, bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, and riddles that will lead to the truth.This is an uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a tragic farce; a slapstick tragedy; and a strange, and strangely honest, story of one man’s stubborn quest to find refuge—in this world and in the world that lies beyond it. Format: Blio. FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Family Life / General. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-08 20:00:03. FICTION Literary. Fiction fast Family Life General. Fiction fast Dystopian. https://atwellpl.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0030119720 TXHAP