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Hangman, August 2023
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2023
On Sale: August 8, 2023
Featuring: Maya Binyam
208 pages ISBN: 037461007X EAN: 9780374610074 Kindle: B0BBC8RXZY Hardcover / e-Book
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Dystopian | Saga
An enthralling and original first novel about exile,
diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America
and beyond.
In the morning, I received a phone
call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements
had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes,
because my clothes had been packed for me. A
car arrived to pick me up.
A man returns
home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years in
America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn’t
recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone
recognizes him, a man who calls him brother—setting
him on a quest to find his real brother, who is dying.
In Hangman, Maya Binyam tells the story of that
search, and of the phantoms, guides, tricksters,
bureaucrats, debtors, taxi drivers, relatives, riddles, and
strangers that will lead to the truth.
It is an
uncommonly assured debut: an existential journey; a tragic
farce; a slapstick tragedy; and a strange, and strangely
honest, story of one man’s stubborn quest to find
refuge—in this world and in the world that lies beyond
it.
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