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Recommended Reading

Books mentioned in Across the Big Blue Sea

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, Fourth Estate 2013; Half of a Yellow Sun, Fourth Estate 2009; We Must All Be Feminists, Fourth Estate 2014.

  • Sefi Atta, Everything Good Will Come, Interlink Books 2005.

  • Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, I Do Not Come To You By Chance, Hachette Digital 2009.

  • Noo Saro-Wiwa, Looking for Transwonderland, Granta Books, 2012.

  • Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go, Penguin 2013.

  • Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters' Street, Vintage 2010.

 

 

 

Books about Europe's Refugee Crisis

 

  • Dr. Pietro Bartolo: Tears of Salt (out in autunm 2017). The doctor of Lampedusa's memoir has been published in Italian as 'Lacrime di Sale'.

  • Patrick Kingsley, The New Odyssey, Guardian Faber 2016.

  • Emma Jane Kirby: The Optician of Lampedusa, Allen Lane 2016.

  • Charlotte McDonald-Gibson, Cast Away, Granta Books 2016.

 

 

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