Scale Boy: An African Childhood Suburban Fiction moving between Lillian’s youth—the Depression

moving between Lillian’s youth—the Depression

struggles to find the contentment that Marmee assured her would come with domesticity

The World and Everything in It belongs in every child’s library

Every book in the Dream Harbor series can be read as a standalone

Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive

Scale Boy: An African Childhood Suburban Fiction moving between Lillian’s youth—the DepressionAn 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