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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 8, 2014
Pages
157
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226178790
ISBN-10
022617879X
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.78 lbs.
Original list price
$67.50
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Yayaâs Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul StollerÂits authorÂan American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two menâs lives couldnât be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illnessÂcancerÂthose differences evaporated, and the two were brought to profound existential convergence, a deep camaraderie in the face of the most harrowing of circumstances. Yayaâs Story is that story.
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Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. Itâs a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on. Â Â
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Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. Itâs a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on. Â Â
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Hardcover
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from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 8, 2014)
9780226178790 | details & prices | 157 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $67.50
About: Yayaâs Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.
About: Yayaâs Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.
Paperback
from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 8, 2014)
9780226178820 | details & prices | 157 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $22.50
About: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.
About: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America.
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