Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City

ISBN-10: 0099524228
ISBN-13: 9780099524229
Category: Liberia
Pages: 286
Language: English
Published: 2012
Publisher: Random House
Author: Jonny Steinberg

Description

"On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Many fled here, survivors of a brutal civil war that claimed the lives of one in fourteen Liberians. But even an ocean away, the baggage of the past is difficult to leave behind. Steinberg spent two years in this close-knit neighbourhood, tracing the tensions between two men, Rufus and Jacob, with very different pasts but goals that were locked into a collision course. As national dramas played out on a small stage thousands of miles from home, Steinberg takes up [the] ... story of a horrific and heart-wrenching war, and of the quest to be human in a world losing its humanity."--Back cover.

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