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    Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (Shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize)

    By Sarah Ladipo Manyika

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    Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she is in good health and makes the most of it, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story, moving seamlessly between past and present, we meet Dawud, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper, Sage, a feisty, homeless Grateful Dead devotee, and Antonio, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.
    A subtle story about ageing, friendship and loss, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.
    "In dreamlike prose, Manyika dips in and out of her present, her past, in a story that argues always for generosity, for connection, for a vigorous and joyful endurance." Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCASSAVA REPUBLIC
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781911115052
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    Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (Shortlisted for the Goldsmith Prize)
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    Sarah Ladipo Manyika

    Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, and teaches literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah sits on the boards of Hedgebrook and San Francisco's Museum of the African Diaspora. She was the Chair of Judges for the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2015, the first ever pan-African prize celebrating first-time African writers of published fiction books. Her novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2016 and the California Book Award 2018.

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