Format | Hardcover |
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A Broken People’s Playlist: Stories (from Songs)
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Print length: | 224 pages |
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Language: | English |
Publisher: | HarperVia US |
Publication date: | 2 August 2023 |
Dimensions: | 13.97 x 1.91 x 20.96 cm |
ISBN-10: | 0063268183 |
ISBN-13: | 978-0063268180 |
Description
“”A dozen interlinked, music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where Garricks was raised… Each songlike story feels like a breakout hit encapsulating the brokenness and the beauty in life’s soundtrack.””— Booklist , starred review “Beautifully woven . . . a magical delight.”—Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears A Broken People’s Playlist is set to the soundtrack of life, comprised of twelve music-inspired tales about love, the human condition, micro-moments, and the search for meaning and sometimes, redemption. It is also Chimeka Garricks’s love letter to his native city, Port Harcourt, introducing us to a cast of indelible characters in these loosely interlocked tales. There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart—who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife; a man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother; three friends who ponder penis captivus and one’s peculiar erectile dysfunction; a troubled woman who tries to find her peace-place in the world, helped by a headful of songs and a pot of ginger tea. Infused with the author’s resonant and evocative storytelling, each page holds “the depth of a novel” (Hari Kunzru); a character, a moment that will—like a favorite song—long linger in the heart and mind. —- ISBN: 9780063268180
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