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Less Than What You Once Were

Less Than What You Once Were

Brown, Aaron

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLetters & Essays

ISBN10: 1956692118
ISBN13: 9781956692112
Publisher: Unsolicited Press
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Less Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker-during the 2008 Battle of N'Djamena in Chad's capital. This destabilizing experience-in which the speaker's home is broken into-results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at N'Djamena's airport as an eight-year-old boy to the failed attempt at bird hunting with a slingshot. These centering memories soon give way to stories of displacement as a young adult and, much later, a return to the country of his youth. This fragmented memoir, told in a similar, episodic style to Claudia Rankine's Citizen, is both a coming-of-age story and also a story of exile, ending in a state of dislocated adulthood, the speaker longing for a return to a childhood home that can't be accessed.

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