Afterlives Self-Help its first Black mayor and

its first Black mayor and the youngest-ever mayor of a major American city

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As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance at a better life in Elsira

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Afterlives Self-Help its first Black mayor andFrom the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too,