Chinelo Okparanta — This Impossible Life — at Conn Ave

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From the acclaimed author of Under the Udala Trees, a profoundly moving, unforgettable new epic following the aftermath of one catastrophic moment in the lives of two siblings. Eleven year old Alohan and his four year old sister Ivie are the children of a rainmaker, who performs elaborate rituals to bring or hold back the rain. One day, the rainmaker's luck runs out: it pours on the wrong person's wedding, and the repercussions for him and for his wife who accompanies him to the wedding are deadly. Orphaned and alone, Alohan is quickly forced into an early adulthood, charged with providing for and protecting Ivie. The two siblings become each other's entire worlds, bound by loss and loyalty. But just as they begin to build a life for themselves, a lapse of judgment lea…

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