Uwem AKPAN ... Say You're One of Them (Little, Brown, 2008)

UWEM AKPAN was born in Nigeria. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. He made his fiction début in The New Yorker in 2005 and currently teaches in Zimbabwe. Get ready, he will be the next big thing in world literature!