A novel by Julie Iromuanya
May 12, 2015 6 x 9 288 Pages 978-1-56689-397-8
Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with an outrageous lie.
Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspiratorthat is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Jobs tenuous balancing act.
About the Author
Julie Iromuanya is the author ofMr. and Mrs. Doctor(Coffee House Press), a finalist for thePEN/Faulkner Award, thePEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, theEtisalat Prize for Literature (now 9 Mobile Prize forLiterature), and theNational Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut Fiction.Her scholarly-critical work most recently appears inMeridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalismand is forthcominginCallaloo: A Journal of African American Arts and LettersandAfropolitan Literature as WorldLiterature (Bloomsbury Publishing).She was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dayton. She has also been a Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference, a Bread Loaf Bakeless/Camargo France Fellow, a Brown Foundation Fellow at the Dora Maar House, a Jan Michalski Fellow at The Treehouses, and the Eternal Vada Fellow at Sangam House. Her work has also been supported by fellowships and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, Villa Lena, and Villa Ruffieux. Iromuanya earned her B.A. at the University of Central Florida and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a Presidential Fellow and award-winning teacher. She is an assistant professor in the creative writing MFA program at the University of Arizona. She is at work on a second novel,A Season of Light.