Ebook {Epub PDF} Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani

Becoming Abigail is a spare, lyrical novella focussed around a Nigerian girl, alternating short sections focussing on her past and present. Her name is Abigail, but the dominant Abigail is her mother, who died giving birth to www.doorway.ru: Chris Abani. “Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale about a young Nigerian girl’s escape from prostitution is so hypnotic that it begs to be read in one sitting Abigail is sensitive, courageous, and teetering on the brink of madness. Effortlessly gliding between past and present, Chris Abani spins a timeless story of misfortune and triumph.”. Abigail act of mourning is to some extent troubling. It is symbolised by among other acts, the killing of birds and later dressing them in lace from her mother’s bridal dress. But, as written by Abani, explaining the symbol from an authorial distance, we realize that not much is substantiated in the rest of the book, “this tradition recognized complex ways to be human, and she was allowed to mourn.” (p).

Becoming Abigail is the second novel from the Nigerian-born, award-winning writer of Graceland. Nigerian-born novelist Chris Abani stunned critics with his debut novel, the PEN/Faulkner Award. Abani follows up GraceLand, his PEN/Faulkner Award winning boy's coming-of-age novel, with a searing girl's coming-of-age novella in which a troubled Nigerian teen is threatened with becoming human trade. Abigail's mother died giving birth to her, leaving her, as she grows, with a crippling guilt that drives her to bizarre childhood mourning. Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani is a novella about the tragic life of a teenage Igbo girl, named Abigail Tansi. Abigail's mother died during her birth, and she is named after her. However, the girl's startling physical likeness of her mother torments her ailing father, who is reminded of his late wife every time he sees Abigail.

Abani follows up GraceLand, his PEN/Faulkner Award–winning boy's coming-of-age novel, with a searing girl's coming-of-age novella in which a troubled Nigerian teen is threatened with becoming human trade. Abigail's mother died giving birth to her, leaving her, as she grows, with a crippling guilt that drives her to bizarre childhood mourning rituals and, later, with the responsibility of caring for her chronically depressed father. “Becoming Abigail, a spare yet voluptuous tale about a young Nigerian girl’s escape from prostitution is so hypnotic that it begs to be read in one sitting Abigail is sensitive, courageous, and teetering on the brink of madness. Effortlessly gliding between past and present, Chris Abani spins a timeless story of misfortune and triumph.”. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).