{"product_id":"backhomeabroad-and-other-stories-pede-hollist-9789786111711","title":"BackHomeAbroad and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBackHomeAbroad and Other Stories, \u003c\/em\u003e Pede Hollist presents fifteen stories of lives crossing continents, cultures, and personal histories. Hollist explores how migration reshapes narratives that confront racism, patriarchy, memory, and the unresolved weight of home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Outbreak at the Renaissance\", a woman attributes her marital troubles to the physical scar she got from escaping death in Sierra Leone's civil war. \"Okonkwo's Revenge\" follows two characters from Things Fall Apart as they break free of the limits of Chinua Achebe's book. In \"Foreign Aid\", a man returns to Sierra Leone after twenty years to find that he is a stranger in his homeland. Finally, border towns fighting over a disputed piece of land are united by a hermaphrodite in \"Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Must Stand Beside It\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese compelling stories portray people between worlds, highlighting the tensions and possibilities of movement, memory, and change. Hollist's voice is confident, incisive and quietly radical, marking this collection as an essential contribution to contemporary African literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pede Hollist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9786111710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789786111711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Narrative Landscape Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.32w x 0.56d","brand":"Pede Hollist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588421497087,"sku":"9789786111711","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/backhomeabroad-and-other-stories-pede-hollist-9789786111711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}