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The Books Briefing: What Does Home Mean to You?

The places that make us and the places we make our own: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Source: New York Public Library

“My home was not simply a house or a town but, more importantly, an awakening story,” Chinua Achebe writes in his memoir Home and Exile.

For Achebe, this realization was part of what motivated his work: He saw that Africa’s image in the eyes of the world had been shaped by a colonial narrative, and set out to write novels

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