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Author Kahora, Billy, author

Title The Cape Cod bicycle war : and other stories / Billy Kahora
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series Modern African writing
Modern African writing.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Zoning -- We Are Here Because We Are Here -- The Red Door -- Commission -- The Gorilla's Apprentice -- The Unconverted -- World Pawa -- Treadmill Love -- Shiko -- Motherless -- The Cape Cod Bicycle War -- Acknowledgements -- About the author
Summary Each of the realistic worlds Billy Kahora brings us in the short stories and novella that make up The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories explores the tensions and transitions of characters moving between youthful folly and a precarious adulthood. In the title story, immigrant workers with varying ambitions work at a Wendy's in wintry Cape Cod. Sharing one house, they must also share, or rather compete for, bicycles--crucial transportation--which are in short supply
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
Subject Massachusetts -- Cape Cod
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821440964
0821440969
Other Titles Short stories. Selections