GraceLand
by Chris Abani
List Price: $17.00Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 26, 2005)
Paperback, 321 pages
Fiction
Description of GraceLand by Chris Abani
"A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new."—T. Coraghessan BoyleThe sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Nuanced, lyrical, and pitch perfect, this is a remarkable story of a son and his father, and an examination of postcolonial Nigeria, where the trappings of American culture reign supreme.

- ISBN: 9780312425289
- Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
- Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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