{"title":"Sefi Atta","description":"Sefi Atta is the author of the novels Everything Good Will Come, Swallow, A Bit of Difference, The Bead Collector,  The Bad Immigrant; a collection of short stories, News from Home; and Sefi Atta: Selected Plays. She has received several literary awards, including the 2006 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the 2009 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.","products":[{"product_id":"indigene-a-novella-and-short-stories-hardcover","title":"Indigene: A Novella and Short Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour women grapple with social circumstances out of their control in this novella and short stories collection written by an award-winning Nigerian author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerceptive and satirical, \u003ci\u003eIndigene\u003c\/i\u003e highlights revealing moments in the everyday lives of four introspective professional Nigerian women who grapple with circumstances out of their control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the novella, \u003ci\u003e Indigene\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequel to Atta's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eEverything Good Will Come\u003c\/i\u003e, Enitan, a law partner in Lagos, takes stock of herself after she turns sixty. In the short stories that follow, \"Unsuitable Ties,\" \"Debt,\" and \"Housekeeping,\" Yemisi, a caterer attending a London dinner party as a guest, assesses the company she keeps; Grace, a consultant for a Big Four accounting firm, confronts her shopping habit in a New Jersey mall; and Abi, an ER physician staying in an Atlanta hotel, reflects on the peculiarities of working in the American South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in cities where Atta has lived, \u003ci\u003eIndigene \u003c\/i\u003eleans into social criticism as it explores the dilemmas of these and other characters.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102861234399,"sku":"9781623716066","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/c0lw9jACT59781623716066.webp?v=1781087493"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sefi-atta.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}