02391cam a2200301 4500 1660382852 TxAuBib 20241017120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063268210 0063268213 0029831834 Axis360 TxAuBib Garricks, Chimeka. A Broken People's Playlist [Boundless]. Unabridged. HarperCollins, 2023. ""A dozen interlinked, music-oriented stories set in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where Garricks was raised... Each songlike story feels like a breakout hit encapsulating the brokenness and the beauty in life’s soundtrack.""—Booklist, starred review“Beautifully woven . . . a magical delight.”—Hari Kunzru, author of White TearsA Broken People’s Playlist is set to the soundtrack of life, comprised of twelve music-inspired tales about love, the human condition, micro-moments, and the search for meaning and sometimes, redemption. It is also Chimeka Garricks’s love letter to his native city, Port Harcourt, introducing us to a cast of indelible characters in these loosely interlocked tales.There is the teenage wannabe-DJ eager to play his first gig even as his family disastrously falls apart—who reappears many years later as an unhappy middle-aged man drunk-calling his ex-wife; a man who throws a living funeral for his dying brother; three friends who ponder penis captivus and one’s peculiar erectile dysfunction; a troubled woman who tries to find her peace-place in the world, helped by a headful of songs and a pot of ginger tea.Infused with the author’s resonant and evocative storytelling, each page holds “the depth of a novel” (Hari Kunzru); a character, a moment that will—like a favorite song—long linger in the heart and mind. Format: Acoustik. FICTION / Literary; FICTION / World Literature / Africa / Nigeria; FICTION / Short Stories (single author.) General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-17 20:00:03. Fiction Literary. Fiction fast Short Stories (single author.) Fiction fast World Literature Africa. Okoye, Nneka; Otigba, narrator. https://sundown.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0029831834 TXHSB