Less Than What You Once Were

di Aaron Brown (Autore)

Unsolicited Press, 2022

Less Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker—during the 2008 "Battle of N'Djamena" in Chad's capital. This destabilizing experience—in which the speaker's home is broken into—results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at N'Djamena's airport as an eight-year-old boy to the failed attempt at bird hunting with a slingshot. These centering memories soon give way to stories of displacement as a young adult and, much later, a return to the country of his youth. This fragmented memoir, told in a similar, episodic style to Claudia Rankine's Citizen, is both a coming-of-age story and also a story of exile, ending in a state of dislocated adulthood, the speaker longing for a return to a childhood home that can't be accessed.

• Autore: Aaron Brown
• Anno edizione: 2022
• Editore: Unsolicited Press
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798201199234

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