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Itoro Bassey’s debut novel is a different kind of immigrant story

What is the cost of charting your own path and seeking answers to heal age-old family wounds?

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SA Sanusi
Mar 29, 2022
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Itoro Bassey is a Nigerian-American storyteller.
Itoro Bassey is a Nigerian-American storyteller.

From Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, to Adichie’s Americanah, to Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street, there is no scarcity of books dwelling on the African immigrant experience. However, none of them appears to be quite like Itoro Bassey’s Faith. Perhaps this uniqueness stems f…

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