The Reverend's Apprentice

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A powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes of Jonah Ayot, a graduate student from a fictional central African nation, studying in a fictional American city some time after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The novel mirrors Jonah's own struggle as a newcomer to American life, trying to organize his perceptions around an identity that is global rather than parochial.

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David N. Odhiambo is a novelist, poet and playwright and the author of two previous novels. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, he moved to Canada in 1977, where he lived in Montreal and Vancouver. He subsequently studied writing in Cambridge, Massachusetts and now lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.