Patrice Nganang — Scale Boy: An African Childhood

<p><strong>An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa—complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. </strong><br />Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of <em>Dog Days</em>, <em>Mount Pleasant</em>, and, most recently, <em>A Trail of Crab Tracks</em>, which was a 2022 <em>New Yorker</em> 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. <br /><a href="https://politics-prose.com/book/9780374614515"><em><strong>Scale Boy</strong></em></a> 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.</p><p><strong>Patrice Nganang </strong>was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, a poet, and an essayist. His novel <em>Dog Days</em> received the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. He is also the author of <em>Mount Pleasant</em> (FSG, 2016), <em>When the Plums Are Ripe</em> (FSG, 2019), and <em>A Trail of Crab Tracks </em>(FSG, 2022). He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York.</p><p>PURCHASE:</p><p>https://politics-prose.com/book/9780374614515?ic_referral=d9PIAO31sd0ZN-QcqrhJwFsgtr5rc6gpifHLkOo42LkwMwJGIQHrf3VVVQas_XMi9SKstkOe0udnGYer9VBoBf8PfX8NncdreNxA3TzjRwKT436ctc6pWQPGvuO5sLEsZm8fuTo</p>