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From YouTube: Chigozie Obioma — Authors Visiting in Des Moines (AViD)
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After publishing his debut novel, The Fishermen, in 2015, Obioma won a NAACP Image Award and was a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. His new novel, the critically acclaimed An Orchestra of Minorities, is being hailed as one of the most anticipated books of 2019.
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Turning
in
the
information
table
for
a
chance
to
win
an
avid
journal,
a
signed
copy
of
Nick
Nolte's
book,
yes,
a
signed
copy
of
Nick
Nolte's
book
rebel.
My
life
outside
the
lines,
your
evaluations,
help
to
access
future
Avot
funding,
purchased
a
book
from
Beaverdale
books
and
have
your
book
autographed
by
the
author.
A
Now,
events
like
this
would
not
be
possible
without
our
supporters
and
we
would
like
to
make
sure
that
we
thank
them
each
one
of
them.
So
I'm
gonna
start
with
this
list
of
volunteers
and
sponsors
who
have
been
a
part
of
making
Abbott
possible.
So
our
premier
sponsor
the
Des
Moines
Register
nationwide
Foundation
Principal
Financial,
Group,
Brad
and
Kelly
ed
mister
humanities,
Iowa
state
based
affiliate
of
the
National
Endowment
for
the
Humanities,
cultivating
compassion,
the
dr.
A
Richard
Deming
Foundation
Mary
Kay
and
Daniel
M
Kelly
Family,
Foundation,
Oh,
Brian,
Fitzpatrick,
Foundation,
Karen,
shaft
and
Steve
Jane,
dr.
Katherine
and
Andrew
Houser,
Pam
bass,
bookie
and
Harry
bookie
Shelley
and
Martin
Brody,
Mary,
Ricci,
Douglas
and
Deborah
West,
Don,
Taylor,
Judy
blank
and
Mary
Ann
and
Robert
Sobiech.
B
Nigerian-Born,
authored,
chico,
za,
OB,
ama
worst
into
the
literary
scene
in
2015,
with
his
beautiful,
debut
novel,
the
fisherman,
this
one,
an
N
double
ACP,
Oh,
Image
Award
and
was
named
finalist
for
the
prestigious
Man
Booker
Prize
shikou
za
was
also
named
one
of
Foreign
Policy's
100
leading
global
thinkers.
Wow
anticipation
was
high
for
his
follow-up,
therefore,
and
to
cozy
a
delivered.
An
orchestra
of
minorities
was
released
this
year
to
critical
acclaim.
The
Washington
Post
called
it
your
big
novel
of
the
winter
and
the
Guardian
called
it
a
stunning
leap
forward.
For
the
author.
B
This
book
tells
the
story
of
a
young
poultry
farmer
in
present-day
Nigeria
living
alone
without
family
one
day
he
has
a
fateful
encounter
with
a
suicidal
woman
on
a
bridge
over
a
swollen
river
and
as
those
of
you
who've
read
the
book
know
things
take
quite
a
turn
from
there.
This
is
a
brilliant
electrifying
book
that
is
complex
and
epic
and
scale.
It's
told
in
a
series
of
flashbacks
delivered
by
this
all-seeing
guardian
spirit,
called
a
chi
to
a
divine
jury.
B
In
short,
this
is
the
kind
of
novel
that
assures
its
author,
Chico
za
OB,
ama
that
he
will
be
in
our
literary
lives
for
some
time
to
come.
You'll
have
the
opportunity
to
ask
some
questions
after
his
talk,
so
please
fill
out
those
little
white
forms
inside
your
program.
Volunteers
will
pick
them
up
later
and
deliver
them
to
our
moderator
and
our
moderator
this
evening
is
Kevin.
Patrick
Kevin
moved
to
Des
Moines
as
a
field
organizer
for
then-senator,
Barack,
Obama's,
2008
presidential
campaign
and
now
he's
an
assistant,
Polk
County
Attorney
here
in
Des
Moines.
C
Well,
what
what
a
what
a
reception
you
know,
sometimes,
when
you're
sitting
back
there
and
people
are
saying
you
know
as
she
just
did
just
like
giving
all
these
like
wonderful
exaggerations
about
my
person,
you
know
you
just
wonder
my
actually
the
one
whom
she
you
know
they're
talking
about.
So
it's
it's!
It's
a
great
pleasure
to
be
here.
This
is
my
second
visit
to
Des,
Moines
and
I'm.
C
You
know
you
know,
so
you
guys
have
been
very
kind
to
me
to
the
fishermen
and
now
an
orchestra
of
minorities,
so
I
probably
should
move
here
should
I
alright.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much.
You
know,
I
appreciate
the
you
know,
organizers
and
team,
and
the
crew
who
brought
me
here
and
I
want
to
say
a
big.
Thank
you.
It
is
you
know.
C
I
I,
see
myself
as
somebody
who
is
just
starting,
you
know,
and
so
I
don't
know
how
you
know
the
mistake
or
what
you
guys
were
thinking
of
when
you
decided
to
put
me,
you
know
with
this
wonderful
cast
of
writers.
So
let
me
it's
it's
it's
what
sometimes
very
difficult
to
talk
about
this
book.
You
know
where
do
you
start
from?
It
was
an
idea:
I
got
a
around
2011
I
have
to
say
actually
even
earlier
than
that.
C
So
the
the
gem
of
the
idea
first
came
to
me
around
2009
from
an
actual
real
life
event
that
I
witnessed
as
I'll
tell
you
died
event
in
a
minute,
but
when
the
the
I
said
now
to
think
about
how
to
actually
tell
the
story-
and
you
know
the
whole
mechanics
of
it-
I
told
to
myself
well,
this
is
insane.
You
know.
Why
should
I?
C
The
stories
that
make
it
finally
to
publication
I
write
a
lot
of
stories.
The
fisherman
was
not
by
any
chance
my
first
novel.
They
were
probably
four
five,
even
you
know
other
minor
scripts,
but
the
stories
that
actually,
finally,
you
know,
become
the
real.
You
know
walks
somehow
come
with
a
bully
in
pressure.
C
C
You
know
insistent
story,
so
this
was
the
case
with
this
novel
and
in
the
way
it
is
told.
So
let
me
tell
you
about
the
origin
of
the
story
and
then
my
aims
in
writing
the
novel.
What
I
wanted
to
achieve
and
then
I
will
read
an
excerpt
and
then
you
know
we
can
then
have
a
discussion
and
you
guys
can
then
ask
me
the
questions.
C
C
You
know
my
wife
in
Michigan
and
you
know,
while
I
was
going
to
school
there,
she
was
from
the
Detroit
Dearborn
area
and
you
know
I'm
kind
of
stuck
in
America
for
a
while,
you
know
probably
forever,
but
anyway
my
heart
is
also
back
in
Nigeria.
So
we
are
known
for
some
great
things.
Somebody
said
that
every
is
it
every
four
black
person
is
one
one
of
every
four
is
a
Nigerian
or
something
like
that.
You
know
so
it
is
the
largest
black
population
in
the
world
and
we
actually
very
wealthy.
C
It's
a
major
oil
supplier.
Many
of
you
may
not
know
this,
but
until
2013
when
President
Obama,
you
know
who
decided
that
America
was
doing.
It
was
one
of
the
things
he
promised
when
he
was
campaigning
and
not
G
efficiency.
He
he
made
good.
You
know
the
the
promise
and
America
is
now
not
just
a
producer
of
gas
and
oil,
but
also
even
an
exporter.
So
until
that
time
about
15
percent
of
the
gas
and
oil
consumed
here
came
from
Nigeria.
C
You
know
yes,
but
now
we,
you
know
we
no
longer
sell
to
the
US
anyway.
So
one
of
the
buttons
were
known
for
is
is
that
you
know
the
emails
you
get.
You
know
sometimes,
sir,
from
figs
as
and
all
that,
so
this
thing
goes
on
in
a
very
in
different
levels.
At
a
meta
level.
It
is,
you
know,
internet
fraud,
but
they
are
con
men
everywhere
and
there's
a
a
phenomenon
of
people
masquerading
as
agents
for
universities
and
schools
in
you
know
Western
countries
or
wealthier
countries,
so
they
lie
and
deceive
people.
C
You
know
and
some
some
who
are
just
like
either
uninformed
or
just
really
vulnerable,
and
they
just
tell
them
look
at
you
know
libya,
for
instance:
Libya
is
like
America,
you
know
comedy
and
order.
So
I
was
going
to
college
in
not
Cyprus,
so
Cyprus
is
divided
and
the
part
of
Cyprus
where
I
was
was
this
country,
that
is
on
the
UN
embargo.
You
know
it's,
it's
not
a
great
country,
I
have
to
say,
and
so
people
would
deceive
others
and
say
look.
C
This
is
a
very
advanced
country
and
as
everything
his
job
is
like
America
and
and
some
people
came
that
way,
they
sold
everything
they
had
thinking.
They
were
migrating
to
a
place
where
you
know
there
would
be
they
will
have
all
these
opportunities.
So
I
met
this
guy
Jay
in
2009.
Who
came
that
way
and
he
had
been
to
Germany
he'd
lived
in
Germany
before,
but
he
had
run-ins
with
the
authorities
and
in
the
sending
back
home,
and
so
he
was
very
eager
to
go
back
to
Europe
and
then
settled
there.
C
So
he
came
to
Cyprus
and
on
discovering
on
arriving,
he
became
very
shattered
by
what
he
saw
that
this
country
was
in
better
in
any
way
in
the
Nigeria.
So
he
began
to
so
so.
I
witnessed
firsthand
the
internal
collapse
of
a
person
psychologically
emotion,
and
you
know
so
on
the
fifth
day
of
being
on
the
island.
C
He
drank
very
well
very
much
and
he
took
a
bottle
of
vodka.
This
Turkish,
rocky
and
and
climbed
the
Attic
of
a
four-story
building
and
I
like
to
imagine
that
he
he
didn't
want
to
jump
I
think
that
he
drank
so
much
and
thought
he
was
climbing
back
down
the
stairs,
but
he
was
actually
walking
over
the
building,
so
he
died
in
a
very
tragic
way.
C
C
A
C
Did
she
think
of
it
and
ordered
so
I
tried
to
recreate
you
know
his
life?
How
how
did
they
come
to
the
decision
or
how
did
he
come
to
the
decision
to
come
to
Cyprus
that
way,
and
why
so
an
occasional
minorities
is
a
way
for
me
to
explain
that
so
I
just
created.
You
know
this
story
about
this
guy
who,
because
he
wanted
the
approval
of
you,
know
how
family
decides
to
make
this
journey.
So
that
was
the
origin
of
the
story.
So
the
aims
in
creating
the
story
is
I
again.
C
I
wanted
to
ask
these
questions
and
from
so
the
way
I
write.
Is
that
something
I
observe
something
or
I
hear
something
I
within
something
and
then
I
frame.
All
these
philosophical
questions
and
the
fiction
becomes
how
I
attempt
to
answer
those
questions
the
fisherman
was
born
that
way,
for
instance,
it
was
just
me
asking
myself
what
is
it
that
can't
own
the
love
that
he
a
brother
has
for
the
other
or
a
sibling.
C
You
know
that
sacred
bond,
that
they
have
what
can't
own
that
love
not
just
into
something
else,
but
hatred
I
wanted
to
the
opposite,
and
you
know
I
came
up
with
this
idea
of
of
a
prophecy,
and
so
that
was
our
deficient
man
was
born.
So
also
somebody
told
me
sometime
a
long
time
ago
an
old
man
I
met
in
in
a
boss
on
a
boss.
C
Sorry,
you
know
we're
traveling
and
he
he
was
like,
so
he
he
had
had
some
very
bad
experiences,
and
so
he
was
just
like
saying
all
kinds
of
things
in
the
boss.
He
was
like
going.
It
was
a
little
unhinged,
I
have
to
say-
and
at
some
point
he
said
you
know,
so
nobody
was
actually
listening
to
him,
because
people
thought
he
was
a
nuisance.
But
I
was
I
was
listening
to
everything.
He
was
saying
very
carefully
and
at
some
point
he
asked
a
question.
He
said
hey.
C
C
You
know-
and
you
know
nobody
said
anything-
he
said
it
will
be
the
exact
you
know,
so
you
rise
them
fall,
you
rise
them
fall
and
you
rise
again
until
the
end.
So
this
is
what
informs
you
know.
The
bleak
tone
that
the
life
of
Chinon
so
takes
in
the
novel,
all
right,
so
all
I've
said
so
far-
would
make
you
feel
like
this
is
a
novel
toad
in
a
traditional
way.
What,
sadly,
is
not
again?
C
I
was
crazy
enough
to
decide
that
I
wanted
to
write
a
cosmological
novel,
so
on
Michigan
I
had
read,
I
became
exposed
to
Paradise
Lost
by
John,
Milton
and
I
said
to
myself
there's
something
about
the
way
in
which
you
know
we
Africans
haven't
embraced
westernization
very
deeply.
We
tend
to
dismiss
our
own
heritage,
and
you
know
the
very
the
many
complex
what
the
use
in
culture
that
we
used
the
way
we
still
have
it's
just
there
to
explore
and
I
said
to
myself.
You
know
even
people
of
my
dad's
generation.
C
You
know
most
of
them
don't
seem
to
know
about
deechi,
which
is
at
the
center
at
the
center
of
the
board
view.
So
if
you
look
at
Western
civilization,
you
will
see
that
the
idea
of
a
free
will,
for
instance,
cannot
be
thought
of
as
a
myth.
Why?
Because
you
can't
race
many
institutions
to
that
idea.
You
know
liberal
democracy,
if
only
Bradley
the
mid-south,
you
know
the
idea
of
choice.
You
always
have
freedom,
whether
is
the
French
Revolution.
C
You
know
Lee
buffet
always
talking
about
this,
but
there
used
to
be
so
we'd
say
the
ebo
fundamental
axiom
of
well
ISM,
so
the
the
the
the
the
center
ideology
in
the
bikochu
is:
where
want
instant
another
thing
we
stand
beside
it.
So
what
it
means
is
that
the
was
conceived
that
there's
nothing
that
can
stand
by
itself.
Everything
has
a
kind
of
duplicate.
So
if
you,
if
there
is
a
a
corporal
entity
of
some
sort,
then
there
must
definitely
be
an
incorporeal
version
in
metaphysical
space.
D
C
These
so
in
in
the
imagination
of
the
Ebola
in
West
Africa,
there
is
no
difference
really
between
the
world
of
the
living
and
E
and
the
only
V
not
dead,
so
they
meld
together.
It
is
us
who
have
to
discover
it
so
I,
you
know
so
after
reading
Paradise,
as
I
said
to
myself.
Well,
maybe
I
can
write
something
like
that
and
at
the
center
of
all
that
is
the
Chi.
C
They
had
an
egalitarian
structure
in
which
age
old
age
was
approximate
to
wisdom.
So
what
happened?
Was
the
oldest
people
in
the
in
each
in
each
kindred
sent
a
representative
either
the
oldest
man
or
woman
to
represent
them
at
the
village
council?
So
they
gathered
together?
That
was
how
in
a
decisions
were
made.
So
in
fact
the
British
had
a
hard
time
colonizing
Ebola
and
because
of
that,
because
what
they
did
was
they
came
in
with
the
cannon.
C
If
they
want
to
be
aggressive-
and
you
know
the
they
just
marched
the
palace
of
the
king
or
queen
Oh,
whoever
and
the
people
surrender
or
they
came
with.
You
know
some
kind
of
edit
for
you
to
sign.
You
know
they,
the
the
interpreter,
because
the
the
people
didn't
speak,
English.
Of
course
the
interpreter
would
just
say
you
know
the
Queen
says
that
you
know
we
want
friendship
with
you.
C
You
know,
while
actually
the
edit
says
that
you
assign,
in
a
way
your
land,
you
know
the
sovereignty
of
the
Queen
and
the
people
of
course,
yes,
and
they
sign
it
away
and
then
the
next
day
the
British
comes
with
the
you
know,
with
their
offices
and
say
well,
this
land
is
my
I
am
going
to
build.
You
know
a
railway
station
and
the
people
are
shocked.
What
do
you
mean
by
that?
C
But
you
signed
the
the
document
so
anyway,
there
was
no
palace
to
go
into
when
they
came
to
equalent,
so
what
they
had
to
do
was
create
what
what
they
called
autonomous
leaders
district
commissioners.
So
if
you've
read
a
chaebol
since
fall
apart,
you
will
remember
you
know
the
hated
district
commissioner,
who
was
created
by
the
British
to
impose
so
that
they
could
have
what
what
they
called
indirect
rule
on
the
under
people.
So
these
belief
systems
were
not
just
for
claw
or
me.
They
were
concrete
eyes
in
institutions
before
colonialism
and
also
they.
C
The
thought
aim
was
also
to
tell
the
story
of
how
Africans
are
treated
in
some
of
these
countries
they
go
to
in
in
countries
where
they
are
unwanted,
as
is
the
case
with
not
Cyprus.
In
fact,
I
just
before
I
read
I
have
to
say
that
just
a
few
days
ago,
for
whatever
isn't
you
know,
because
of
the
I
guess,
the
visibility
of
my
walk,
the
African
students
who
are
still
in
Cyprus,
write
to
me
frequently
when
something
happens
to
them.
C
You
know
hoping
that
I
could
be
some
kind
of
advocate,
even
though
I
don't
I
mean
sometimes
there's
nothing.
I
can
do
about
it,
but
I've
just
written.
You
know
with
a
journalist
and
a
photographer
a
a
kind
of
lengthy
investigative
piece
for
foreign
policy,
so
it
will
be
out
I
think
next
week
or
so
so
you
will
be
able
to
see
that
so
anyway,
so
in
the
novel
you
see,
Chinon
saw
is
as
jailed
and
it's
treated
horribly
in
cyprus.
So
some
of
you
have
heard
about
how
some
people
are
even
enslaved
in
libya.
C
So
this
is
some
of
the
experiences
we
go
through
because
our
politicians
have
refused
to
allow
for
development
adequate
development
to
help
on,
even
though
I
think
that
nigeria,
especially
is
improving
I'll,
say
all
right,
so
I
will
read
an
excerpt
from
an
acacia
of
minorities,
five-minute,
excerpt
and
then
you
guys
can
ask
me
questions
so
again.
The
G,
the
guidance
Spirit,
is
telling
this
story.
Dg
very
quickly
is
a
ring
Canadian
spray
that
has
that
Enso's
this
character
and
has
been
coming
and
going
for
600
700
years
or
thereabout.
So
it's
it
is
voice.
C
A
kataka
in
this
state
of
anguish,
my
host,
walked
towards
the
city,
its
expands,
its
world,
opened
before
him
like
a
great
cosmic
secret
desert
desert.
He
heard
again
and
again
from
his
friends,
Titus
Linus
to
obey
an
even
jamika
as
the
one
word
that
adequately
described
this
landscape.
But
what
is
a
desert?
A
desert
is
a
place
of
abundant
but
loose
earth
in
the
land
of
the
great
fathers
it
is
a.
C
It
has
had
to
scoop
earth
from
the
ground,
something
firm
deed
to
the
ground,
perhaps
a
frequent
rain
and
made
it
difficult
for
you
to
come
off
so
easily.
One
has
to
scratch
or
dig
to
scoop
the
earth,
but
here
not
so
the
various
stepping
of
one's
feet
worried
the
ground
and
whipped
up
dust.
No
sooner
has
one
walked.
A
distance
than
one's
shoes
become
covered
in
these
darkish
clay
and
it
spreads
and
runs
about
everywhere,
accommodating
little
vegetation
and
resistant
most
of
what
six
or
plant
its
root
to
become
to
vegetate
here.
C
C
There
must
be
a
struggle,
a
hemispheric
battle
in
which
huge
stones,
heroes,
mountain
rocks,
find
their
way
here
or
emerge
from
some
immensity
beyond
our
knowledge
and
crush
the
enemies
of
earth
and
dust
and
insist
that
here
on
displays
I
must
hand,
and
so
it
will
always
be
so.
I
must
say,
though,
that
this
is
indeed
it.
She
has
affinity
with
the
land
of
the
great
ancestors,
where
the
act
in
its
fecundity
exhibits
an
exuberance
that
marks
the
desert.
C
C
Overlooking
a
bridge
was
a
deep
crater
that
stretched
four
kilometers.
The
Earth
rising
Encinos
rose
to
us
that
what
seemed
to
be
a
more
developed
part
of
the
city.
He
followed
the
trail
tired,
half
mad
working
against
the
wheel
of
his
hat,
passed,
empty
houses
that
sat
like
shadows
in
the
Sun,
the
sweat
soaked
fabric
he
wore
stick
into
his
skin.
He
had
itinerant
voices
of
people.
He
could
not
see
birds
he'd,
never
seen
before
launched
across
the
plains
and
sailed
in
on
at
unhurried
pace.
C
Abel
knew
as
soon
as
he
advanced
I
ran
around
the
bend
where
the
road
turned
back
right
to
was
a
main
one.
He
was
jolted
by
a
shout
of
approaching
voices.
He
turned
and
a
group
of
children
have
emboss'd
out
of
a
gate
from
a
compound,
for
he
saw
the
small
gate.
Swinging
now
came.
Rushing
towards
him
shouting
was
sounded
like
a
bee,
a
bee
and
then
Ronaldinho
Renard
in
ho
cuckoo
in
the
moment
between
the
closing
of
an
eye
and
its
reopening.
C
My
host
was
in
the
midst
of
a
drunken
mob
full
of
noise
and
push
that
was
speaking
in
an
unfamiliar
language,
a
hand
taught
that
his
faded
spot
said
from
behind
and
before
he
could
turn
in
the
direction
another
pooed
its
hem
and
before
he
could
someone
shouted
in
his
ear
and
before
he
could
make
sense
of
what
has
been
said
to
him.
He
was
submerged
in
a
well
of
words.
C
A
goo-gaa
way
he
stamped
his
feet
on
the
ground,
waved
his
arm
about
to
free
himself
from
the
grabbing
hands
and
in
the
deem
reprieve
he
realized
that
he
was
ticketed
in
a
mob
of
curious
boys.
The
recognition
shot
him
and,
in
that
instant,
he
yelled
that
they
desist
he
closed
his
bag
with
one
hand
and
raised
the
other
hand,
swung
himself
from
a
grip
and
staggered,
but
the
boys
behind
him
step
back
from
him.
Like
scared
flies,
he
claims
his
teeth
raised
his
hand
and
landed
it
on
the
feast
on
the
first
head.
C
C
They
did
not
know
also
the
Rena
D,
who
could
not
possibly
be
here,
like
him,
eviscerated
a
walking
shell
of
what
he
had
been
just
a
week
before
now,
one
of
the
children
stepped
forward
motion
to
the
other.
So
back
off,
this
one
was
dressed
in
shorts
and
a
singlet
taller
than
the
rest,
and
this
boy
started
saying
something
and
gestures
to
gesture
to
the
small
boy
who
was
carrying
a
ball.
Then
he
demonstrated
to
my
host
that
he
wanted
signatures.
C
So
he
took
the
balls
assign
it
and,
as
he
did,
an
image
he'd
once
seen
at
the
back
of
his
father's
house
in
the
village,
came
into
his
mind
to
insult
him.
It
was
a
sure
that
most
belong
to
his
big
snail
now
empty
dried
moving
slowly
away
at
first,
it
had
seemed
like
a
miracle
when
he
saw
it,
but
when
he
examined
it
closely,
he
saw
that
it
was
being
ferried
by
a
team
of
ants.
He
felt
that
he
felt
now
that
the
same
thing
was
happening
to
him.
C
Now
in
this
poor
neighborhood
in
this
strange
country,
where
this
children
had
mistaken
him
for
the
best
footballer
in
the
world,
they
did
not
know
that
he
was
a
man
of
great
poverty,
a
man,
who's
poverty
extended
beyond
the
diameter
of
time
and
the
past.
He
owned
nothing
in
the
present
he
owned
nothing
and
in
the
prospected
future,
nothing
all.
He
has
all
he
all
Azorean
here
he
was
with
the
pen.
One
of
these
kids
had
offered
him
sign
in
ball
books,
shirts,
even
their
pumps.
At
the
time.
C
Many
years
ago,
he'd
screamed
at
the
sight
of
the
moving
shell
carried
by
the
bald
legs
of
an
army
of
ants
and
Wanda.
He
had
caught
for
his
mom
to
come
and
see
it,
but
now,
at
the
lifting
of
his
eye
of
himself
before
the
eyes
of
this
train,
boys
broke
down
and
wept.
The
impact
of
this
Ts
was
immediate
when
the
children
noticed
that
here
on
our
Dean,
who
was
crying,
they
stopped
dead.
Here
was
a
great
footballer
doing
what
children
were
were
prone
to
do.
C
It
was
a
dead
giveaway
and
one
after
the
other,
the
small
hands
withdrew.
The
voices
when
silent
the
cheerful
eyes
were
replaced
with
perplexity
and
the
feed
that
in
sigh
caught
him
like
a
silent
of
Tyrrhenian
army,
withdrew,
he
turned
from
them
and
continued
on
his
way,
sobbing,
as
it
went.
Thank
you
very
much.
D
In
testing
good
evening,
everyone,
as
my
introduction
indicated
our
told
I,
am
an
assistant
Polk,
County
Attorney,
and
a
part
of
that
is
that
I
have
trial
work
and
the
first
two
pages
of
this
novel
are
captivating,
because
I
imagine
that
she
being
telling
the
story
right
he's
on
trial,
he's
pleading
his
case
to
the
judges
and
juries
of
these
other
deities
and
from
there.
It
just
takes
off.
So
starting
with
the
obvious.
Why
or
explaining
the
title.
C
Yeah,
okay,
so
one
of
the
most
surreal
events
of
my
childhood
and
not
just
my
childhood.
Like
you
see
all
the
time
is
witnessing
hawks
preying
on
chickens
like
they're,
always
straight
chickens,
you
know,
hain
and,
and
and
it's
cheeks
often
walking
around
the
neighborhood.
You
see
that
a
lot
and
they
hides
and
hawks
this
data
birds.
There
are
always
preying
on
them.
You
see
them
hanging
on
on
this.
C
You
know
the
term
I'll
priming
the
attack
it
and
when
once
a
strike,
what
happens
is
often
very
moving,
so
the
chickens
cannot
do
very
much
the
very
weak
birds
compared
to
a
hawk
or
an
eagle,
so
what
they
cry
they
let
out
in
a
nimble
language
is
what
I
have
translated
with
much
liberty
as
an
orchestra
of
minorities.
What
is
actually
means
is
it
is
actually
you
know
if
I
were
to
translate
correctly.
It
would
mean
something
like
the
the
crying
of
like
little
things.
C
C
Question
well:
no
because
my
my
mom,
my
mom's
father
was
somebody
who
he
was
like
one
of
those
who
did
not
convert
to
Christianity
until
he
died.
He
he
was
a
very
serious
traditionalist,
so
she
grew
up
in
this
rare
home
because
you
know
that's
like
a
dying
breed
really,
so
he
he
was
steeped
in
in
that.
So
my
mom
grew
up
learning
a
lot
about
Auden,
Annie
and
the
boy.
What
do
you
want?
She
would
always
say
something
like
if
something
bad
happened
to
any
of
us.
C
Maybe
we
took
HeLa
something
she
would
say
something
like
well.
This
is
a
result
of
the
transaction
between
him
and
his
Chi.
You
know
so.
I
was
always
thinking
about
the
Chi
and
I
would
ask
a
lot
of
questions,
but
yeah
I
did
a
lot
of
research
to
write
this
book,
because
I
wanted
to
I.
Wasn't
in
very
some
fantasy
I
wasn't
inventing
a
cosmology.
It
was.
You
know,
I
wanted
to
be
true
to
what
is.
Actually
you
know
it
a
real
what
we
were
caught
over
people.
D
C
C
Sure
of
this
has
committed
what
it
suspects
to
be
an
egregious
act
for
which
it
will
be
punished,
because
in
the
bow
pantheon,
the
the
you
know,
the
greatest
God,
you
know
or
goddess
is
Allah
the
goddess
of
the
earth,
which
is
also
the
goddess
of
fertility,
and
so,
if
you
have
somebody
who
is
pregnant,
this
is
a
sacrilegious.
Debt
is
the
penalty.
So
it's
it's
trying
to
explain
a
way,
something
that
is.
You
know
it
cannot
really
explain.
C
C
Also
able
to
you
know,
Chronicle
the
or
chart
the
history
of
the
both
civilization
through
time
landmark
events
there's
a
time,
the
GN
source,
a
character
who
was
there
when
the
for
the
Europeans
first
came
one
who
was
enslaved
and
came
actually
to
the
u.s.
here
and
Biafra.
You
know
some
of
these
historical
landmark
events.
D
C
So
there's
a
paradox
in
the
board
view
about
about
that.
So
we
so
the
Chi
is
often
frustrated,
or
at
least
is
suggested.
The
reader
and,
of
course,
the
jury
in
cosmic
space
that
he
wants
to
direct
its
host
on
a
particular,
more
fruitful
cause
of
action.
But
it
cannot
because
did
she
cannot
compel
its
host
against
its
wheel?
C
So
so
there
is
some
kind
of
determinism,
but
we
also
believe
that
if,
if
you
want
to
achieve
something
say
I
want
to
become
you
know
a
prosecutor
and
and
I'm
doing
striving
doing
all
this
work
that
I
needed
to
do
to
get
there
and
your
Chi
is
lazy
and
it's
just
sleeping
you
know
I'm
not
doing
comparable
amount
of
effort.
Then
you
were
just
striving
in
futility,
so
there
has
to
be
a
synchronous.
C
I
read
The
Odyssey,
very,
very,
very,
very
early
life,
probably
yet
eighteen
of
what
you
know
they're
about,
but
you
know
I've
a
few
people
like
critics
say
that
well,
this
is
like
a
recreation
of
the
ODC.
If
it
sells
copies
well,
maybe,
but
but
it
wasn't
intended
to
be
so
I
don't
know,
I
just
felt
like
the
Chi
being
these
character,
who
you
know
acquires
all
this
knowledge
has
in
some
ways
read
widely
through
all
these
other
holes
that
it
has
censored
or
across
time.
C
So
it
will
probably
find
something
to
you
know
a
kind
of
a
motivating
story
or
Luke.
You
have
to
continue
looking
for
her
and
something
something
like
that.
So
look
at
the
story
of
this
guy.
You
know
a
so.
It
was
just
like
a
tool
to
knowledge
she
known
so
to
keep
waiting
or
looking
for
and
alley
I
mean
towards
the
end
of
the
novel.
It
also
cites
a
Shakespearean.
C
D
C
Novel
is
full
of
a
lot
of
things
as
a
calamari
of
things.
Well,
I
I
think
the
obvious
ones.
What
you've
just
mentioned
fate
destiny,
going
back
to
the
origin
story.
The
story
that
inspired
the
novel
III
always
ask
myself.
Why?
Why
do
bad
things
happen
to
us
when
we
don't
seem
to
deserve
it?
I
always
remember
the
story
of
a
drive-by
shooting.
You
know
that
record
III,
don't
know
where
we're,
but
somebody
told
me
about
it.
C
There
was
this
nine
year
old
girl
was
like
writing
homework
at
home,
and
you
know
these
guys
were
shooting
each
other
somewhere
along
the
road
and
a
bullet
hits
through
the
roof
and
Kilda.
You
know
she
didn't.
She
didn't
even
know
about
it.
She
was
just
doing
her
thing.
So,
just
like
that,
guy
that
J
I
was
just
asking
myself.
You
know
what
could
have
happened
differently.
C
How
do
we
is
a
way
to
explain
the
faith?
The
fact
that
of
all
the
people
who
came
to
Cyprus
in
similar
circumstances,
he
is
the
one
who
ends
up
in
a
body
bag
in
other
way
he
did
so
that's
a
very
prominent
teaming
of
even
in
the
fishermen
have
been
writing
about
this
for
quite
a
while,
but
this
eggs
are
this
immigration,
this
racism
as
well.
You
know
a
lot
of
which
he
encounters
in
Cyprus
I
think
we
talked
a
lot
about
racism
here
in
the
US
and
in
some
Western
countries.
C
But
you
know
some
I
mean
I,
don't
know
if
I
would
say:
Cyprus
is
a
western
country,
but
you
know
in
places
like
that
as
well.
We
see
a
lot
of
that
and
class.
You
know.
Class
is
a
big
thing
in
Nigeria
and
in
fact,
I
think
that
is
at
the
very
center
of
the
novel
it
is
jinan,
so
is
destroyed
by
one
thing:
upward
mobility.
You
could
say
you
know
that's
what
he's
not
supposed
to
be
in
this
class,
but
he
wants
to
put
himself
there
and-
and
you
know
it
destroys
him.
C
C
It
stays
there
for
a
while
and
goddess
itself
a
time
during
which
I
don't
do
any
writing
I,
don't
write
this
story
down.
It
can
take
a
long
time.
Sometimes
you
know
for
two
years,
I'm
thinking
about
a
story
all
in
my
head.
Until
it's
fully
formed,
then
I
write
it
all
down
and
then
I
expand.
If
it's
a
novel,
if
it's
a
short
story,
you
know,
then
it's
fully
contained
so
I
think
the
hardest
part
is
during
that
time
not
losing
focus
and
just
allowing
the
story
to
build
itself.
C
D
C
D
C
Don't
know
if
I'm
able
to
teach
them
anything
the
thing
is
they.
You
know.
They
always
think
that
if
you,
if
you
write
one
or
two
books
in
that
well-received,
then
you
you
know
how
to
teach
others
out
for
right.
I,
don't
to
some
extent
I
mean
I.
I
guess
I
have
experience
so,
but
sometimes
I
feel,
like
you
know,
I'm
not
actually
teaching
them
anything.
You
know,
but
but
then
they
say
that
I
am
so
so
I
don't
know.
You'll
have
to
ask
my
students,
I,
guess.
D
C
I
I
think
that
there's
a
mystery
sometimes
to
some
kind
of
love,
so
dolly
is
a
high
class
person
student
of
pharmacology
and
she
suspects
from
from
the
from
the
very
beginning
of
their
meeting
that
this
will
go
wrong
and
she
doesn't
you
know,
but
when
she
visits
him,
I
suspect
that
you
know
she
sees
that
this
guy
has
done
this
thing.
He's
such
a
humble.
C
You
know
lowly
person
and
there's
some
there's
something
that
is
fascinating
to
hi
about
his
you
know,
being
a
poetry,
farmer
and
all
distance
and
being
so
lonely,
and
she
wants
to
help
him
I
think
there's
some
of
the
you
know,
Russia
nailed
for
them
them
being
together,
but
you
know
so
really.
His
motivation
is
then
on.
The
reverse
is
to
you
know.
C
He
finds
himself
with
this
woman
who
is
so
above
him
and
once
believes
that
you
know
it
has
to
do
everything
to
keep
her
and
also
wants
to
have
a
companion
in
his
life
and
and
so
that's
really.
Why
he's
willing
to
really
give
up
everything
I
mean
at
the
beginning.
He
he
exemplifies
that
by
drawing
his
chicken
into
the
river
and
that's
not
a
spoiler,
because
as
the
fosston
you
read,
even
if
you
skim
intro
so
so
that
continues
I
feel
like
I.
C
Yeah
yeah
yeah,
so
it
changes,
I
mean
yeah
so
which
is
also
dating
so
the
emotional
motility
of
this
guy.
He
becomes
almost
deranged,
you
know
by
novels
and
and
he
you
know,
so
what
what
his
love
becomes
an
obsession
and
then
it
becomes
resentment
in
a
way.
So
so
we
see
the
food
art,
you
know
come
full
circle.
C
Okay,
well,
it's
a
long
story,
but
I
wrote
a
piece
for
the
New
York
Times
in
December,
which
actually
got
some
good
read.
It's
called
this
is
really
how
I
became
a
writer.
You
know
it.
It
was
from
my
parents
telling
me
stories
and
asking
me
you
know
usually
in
hospitals,
cuz
I
I
wanted
to
be
a
soccer
player.
You
know
I
wanted
to.
That
was
my
dream.
C
That
was
like
very
swampy
I'm
prone
to
mosquitoes
and
I
would
take
you
from
mullerian
end
up
in
the
hospital,
and
you
know
during
those
times
they
would
just
tell
me
stories
the
last
metal
close
my
eyes,
so
it
was
from
you
know,
creating
these
walls
and
vision
in
them
in
my
mind,
and
that
was
how
the
landscape
of
my
imagination,
really
you
know,
opened
up
and
and
so
I
I
found
myself.
You
know
starting
to
produce
my
own
stories
that.
C
D
C
I,
don't
think
I
could
ever
write
it
in
like
that,
like
that
would
continue
I
feel
like
yes,
it
is.
It
ends
at
a
particular
point
in
the
life
of
this
man
he's
on
this
road
and
traveling
oblivious
to
the
supposed
damage
he
has
done,
but
you
know
I
think
that's
a
window
also
into
the
reader
trying
to
like
imagine
for
themselves.
Okay,
what
would
happen,
what
what
actually
happened?
C
Cuz
even
DG
itself
does
not
really
know
it's
just
making
conjectures
and-
and
you
know
guessing
as
to-
and
that's
one
of
the
reasons
why
it
is
so
anxious
to
go
and
tell
the
story
you
know
in
in
the
court
of
the
high
God,
so
so
I
I
hope
that
there
will
be
a
window
for
the
reader.
To
imagine.
You
know,
create
your
own
series,
maybe
a
follow-up
and.
C
Nothing
I
know
nothing,
I
mean
here
and
they
I'm
writing
an
essay
about
the
notch,
Adam
Ryan
and
how
you
know,
people
in
the
West.
You
cherish
their
heritage,
but
we
don't.
If
they,
you
know,
people
have
been
talking
about
some
some
activists
in
Nigeria,
for
instance,
I've
been
saying:
go
on
get
back
some
of
the
bronze
heads
and
artifacts
that
have
been.
C
You
know
that
I
in
in
the
UK,
you
know
the
you
saw
some
of
them
in
the
Black
Panther,
for
instance,
and
you
know
some
people
would
just
say
why
are
you
so
a
cake?
You
know
why
are
you
thinking
of
like
now,
so
they
just
feel
like
these
things
are
meaningless,
but
then
you
know
we
like
to
mimic
and
imitate
Western
countries,
but
but
look
up,
France
France
is
going
to
review
that
stuff.
So
why
don't
we
cherish
you
know
so
and
so
I?