Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
An ordinary wonder : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION PAPI (CEN)
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Information
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Physical Description
313 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"My name is Otolorin. I've been called monster. Within dark valleys of flesh I defy the given - a snake curled in upon itself, two-in-one, mythical and shunned. Yet, in that magic place between worlds, in the realm where the great mother gives milk to her offspring, I become like a goddess. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
- Intersex people > Fiction.
- Gender-nonconforming people > Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction.
- Yoruba (African people) > Nigeria > Fiction.
- Yoruba (African people) > United States > Fiction.
- Immigrants > United States > Fiction.
- Mythology, African > Fiction.
- Nigeria > Social life and customs > Fiction.