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Things Fall Apart

Author : 
Achebe, Chinua
General Audience: 
Adult
Genre: 
Fiction
Call Number: 
YA Fic/ACH or Fic/ACH
Features: 
Skinny & Light; small typeface; not a lot of white space; font is easy to read.
Cover Notes : 
Not a very interesting cover, it doesn't catch your eye right away.
Blurb Notes: 
It doesn't imediately invite you to dive into the book and start reading. It's kind of dry.
Beginning, Middle, & End : 
The beginning is a little hard to get through. It's a dry read and the story doesn't immediately grab you. The middle seems to have not connection to the beginning. There is a closed ending.
Style : 
Serious, with some flashes of African humor (take that as you will) and short sentences.
Pacing : 
Slow and plodding.
Format : 
There seems to be multiple points of view, with some flashbacks.
Characters : 
Okonkwo
Setting : 
Africa in the 50s.
Theme : 
The rise and fall of one man.
Focus : 
Character driven
Read-a-Likes : 
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton; Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Hook : 
I truly couldn't find one.
Keywords: 
Africa
Colonialism
History
Nigeria
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