JAPA AND OTHER STORIES

“A brilliant collection of stories so ravishingly voiced that we inhabit African immigrants in the USA as if their souls were our own . . . Iheoma Nwachukwu is a literary artist of the highest order.”

-Robert Olen Butler author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

“Japa and Other Stories is a triumph: funny and ruthless, about every variety of longing there is on this earth. Nwachukwu is a terrific chronicler of the human condition . . . a writer of truly brilliant short stories.”

-Elizabeth McCracken author of The Hero of This Book

“Gorillas in Malaysia. U-Haul in Utah. International soccer matches in Finland . . . this eclectic collection exceeds expectations . . . reveals an untold Pynchonesque America rarely captured by African diaspora fiction . . Japa is a major delight of staggering ambition.”

-Billy Kahora author of The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories.