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You Will Know Our Velocity!

Dave Eggers
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Diaspora

USA

Era

Contemporary

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English

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Fiction

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Two Americans try to give away $32,000 cash to strangers around the world in a week following a friend's death. Though by an American author, this novel portrays African countries with unusual honesty about Western projection.

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Included as a comparative text; demonstrates the Western gaze on Africa that African literature pushes back against

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Two Americans try to give away $32,000 cash to strangers around the world in a week following a friend's death. Though by an American author, this novel portrays African countries with unusual honesty about Western projection. Included as a comparative text; demonstrates the Western gaze on Africa that African literature pushes back against

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