Alien Stories Av E.C. Osondu

<p><b>¿A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."<br>¿George Saunders</b></p><p>Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning <i>Alien Stories</i>.</p><p>These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of <i>alien</i> as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, <i>Alien Stories</i> breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as ¿aliens¿ within a complex and interconnected universe.</i>