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Scale Boy: An African Childhood

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Patrice Nganang (Author)

Contributors: Patrice Nganang (Author)

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BISAC categories: Biography & Autobiography -> African American & Black ->

BISAC categories: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoirs ->

BISAC categories: History -> Africa -> Central

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An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa--complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.
ISBN-10: 0374614512
ISBN-13: 9780374614515
Author: Nganang, Patrice
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374614515

ISBN-10: 0374614512

Publish Date: January 20, 2026

On Sale Date: January 20, 2026

Language: English

Pages: 464

Dimensions: 9.1 × 6.4 × 1.7 in

Weight: 1.35 lbs

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