Scale Boy: An African Childhood Suburban Fiction Avery will have to play

Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive

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Scale Boy: An African Childhood Suburban Fiction Avery will have to playAn extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africacomplex, 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 countrys history and in his life. Scale Boy is a memoir that