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Scale Boy : An African Childhood

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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.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.

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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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