Limbo

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Limbo is the powerful and moving story of Trindadian-born Pharaoh Chisholm's cultural isolation and displacement when he and his family migrate from the multicultural mecca of Los Angeles to Trondheim, a small, homogenous city hidden between Fjords in the middle of Norway.

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""Limbo" is an smart, honest novel about displacement and the meaning of home. It struggles in turn with the embracing of identity and the welcome comfort of escape."
-- Percival Everett, author of "Erasure," winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Author Bio

Sean Keith Henry was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and grew up in Boston, Mass. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Oslo, Norway, where he studies Norwegian and English Literature. His stories have been published in Obsidian II, Salamander and Callaloo. Limbo is Sean Henry's first novel.