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Chris Abani

EPISODE · Apr 29, 2004 · 29 MIN

Chris Abani

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GraceLand (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) In Chris Abani's GraceLand, a teenage Elvis-impersonator in Lagos, Nigeria lives in poverty as he pursues an American pop-culture dream of success....

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