One Day I Will Write about This Place: A Memoir

"A Kenyan Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . suffused by a love affair with language."--Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2011

In this vivid and compelling memoir, Binyavanga Wainaina tumbles through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. In One Day I Will Write About This Place, named a 2011 New York Times notable book, Wainaina brilliantly evokes family, tribe, and nationhood in joyous, ecstatic language.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
Published: 09/04/2012
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 9781555976248
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.55w x 0.77d