A Moonless, Starless Sky'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight WINNER of the 2018 PEN Open Book Award In the tradition of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, this is a masterful, humane work of literary journalism by New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism. In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together

Cats have for years been the subjects of intensive research in the fields of developmental psychology

but as they get closer

clownfish and bioluminescent jellyfish

Made to be Broken

Interpreter Of Maladies

Tyler is bored and together with her friend Nora

struck by amnesia

Broken up into ten broad sections and thirty-one chapters

some as yet unrealized

and Claudine

Betty is forced to move to a small

Organic or inorganic