Graceland by Chris Abani
October 25, 2004 3:41 AM
Smartly coarse, brief and exhilarating. Abani has made waves with this novel, a hard coming of age tale about Elvis Oke, an “area boy” from a fetid Lagos slum in the 1970s raised in a poor and troubled home who idolizes Western rock musicians.
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