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244pp., paperback, London, 2021

Frank Jasper, a Nigerian writer, is chosen by Mrs Kirkpatrick, a white woman and wife of an American professor, to attend the prestigious William Blake Program for Emerging Writers in Boston.

"A very funny, intelligent, deliberately and engagingly resistant, and moving piece of writing" Amit Chaudhuri, author of Friend of My Youth

"A witty and warm satire ... Ogene sticks it to the literary classes as our hero negotiates the complexities of the cultural exchange between cosmopolitan Africa and the western world." Jamal Mahjoub, author of The Fugitives

Timothy Ogene grew up outside Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He has lived in Liberia, the UK and the US, where he is lectures in African literary and cultural studies at Harvard University. His first novel, The Day Ends Like Any Day, was awarded Book of the Year by the African Literature Association.