{"product_id":"9781555976248","title":"One Day I Will Write About This Place : A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eOne Day I Will Write About This Place\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Binyavanga Wainaina\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A Kenyan \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young Man \u003c\/i\u003e. . . suffused by a love affair with language.\"\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Top Ten Books of 2011\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In \u003ci\u003eOne Day I Will Write About This Place\u003c\/i\u003e, named a 2011 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003enotable book, Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous, ecstatic language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Glimmering, strobe-lit language . . . a complex, cosmopolitan African experience too rarely depicted in books.” —\u003ci\u003eTeju Cole, GQ's Book of the Year Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Harried reader, I'll save you precious time: skip this review and head directly to the bookstore for Binyavanga Wainaina's standup-and-cheer coming-of-age memoir, \u003ci\u003eOne Day I Will Write About This Place\u003c\/i\u003e. Although written by an East African and set in East and Southern Africa, Wainaina's book is not just for Afrophiles or lovers of postcolonial literature. This is a book for anyone who still finds the nourishment of a well-written tale preferable to the emptycalorie jolt of a celebrity confessional or Swedish mystery.” —\u003ci\u003eAlexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781555976248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40631487561934,"sku":"9781555976248","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_b3d11105-468b-4b7b-ac8a-6c0e2b54ec14.jpg?v=1638844388","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781555976248","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}