Arinze Ifeakandu: God's Children Are Little Broken Things

Join Midtown Reader as we discuss Arinze Ifeakandu debut story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things. Arinze will be in conversation with Gbenga Adesina.

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About the book:A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn’t understand then. A young musician rises to fame at the price of pieces of himself, and the man who loves him. Arinze Ifeakandu explores with tenderness and grace the fundamental question of the heart: can deep love and hope be sustained in spite of the dominant expectations of society, and great adversity.

About the author:Arinze Ifeakandu was born in Kano, Nigeria, and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. An AKO Caine Prize for African Writing finalist and A Public Space Writing Fellow, he is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in A Public Space, Guernica, the Kenyon Review, One Story, and Redemption Song and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2018. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things is his first book.

About Gbenga:Gbenga Adesina, Nigerian poet and essayist, is the author of Painter of Water, selected by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani for the New Generation African Poets series. His work centers intimacy as a form of inquiry, and the sea as archive and brutal border around which orbits the questions of empire, migration, and exile. He was a Goldwater Fellow at NYU where he received his MFA and was mentored by Yusef Komunyakaa. He was the 2020 Olive B. O’Connor Fellow at Colgate University. His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, and the New York Times. He was the winner of the 2020 Narrative Prize.