Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories

Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the USA and Africa. The book spans genres – literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction – and features complex, fully-embodied characters: tongue-tied linguistic anthropologists, comic book enthusiasts and even water goddesses. Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives of hyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the United States and Africa. The book spans genres - literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction - and features complex, fully-embodied characters: tongue-tied linguistic anthropologists, comic book enthusiasts and even water goddesses. The author hopes her stories entertain readers while also offering them a counterpoint to prevalent ''heart of darkness'' writing that too often depicts a singular ''African'' experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.

• | Author: Nana Nkweti
• | Publisher: The Indigo Press
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781911648277
• | ISBN-10: 1911648276