Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendys in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicyclescrucial transportationwhich are in short supply. In other stories, a young man caught between a broken family and political violence befriends an aged gorilla in a Nairobi zoo a pastor struggles to come to terms with the arrest of his brother, who is suspected of terrorism and a dissolute bank employee on a serious bender returns to work to face a review board. The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories is Billy Kahoras longawaited debut collection. Stories in this volume have appeared in Granta and McSweeneys and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.

Binding: Paperback;308 pages; Publisher: Univ of Chicago on behalf of Ohio Univ Press; Classification: DQ; Weight: 444 g; Dimensions: 128 x 202 x 24

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