What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In ‘The Future Looks Good,’ three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in ‘Light,’ a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to ‘fix the equation of a person’ – with rippling, unforeseen repercussions.
