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Scale Boy : An African Childhood
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Overview
An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa--complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history and in his life.
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- ISBN-13: 9780374614515
- ISBN-10: 0374614512
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: January 2026
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.35 pounds
- Page Count: 464
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