A professor and failed writer moves his family from Nigeria to the U.S., hoping to establish better prospects for his children. It’s 1999, and Lukmon Ahmed-Karim, his wife, Moriam, and their teenage son, Taslim, and daughter, Bashira, have recently moved to New Jersey. The children adopt new accents to fit in, and Moriam gets a job as a nurse. But Lukmon, a self-described “bad immigrant” (“not the kind who aspired to be honorary whites,” he explains), works as a security guard despite his PhD in literature, then stays home as a househusband.

ISBN: 9781623718442 Interlink Books Author: Sefi Atta