Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City

by Jonny Steinberg

Book Overview

On Park Hill Avenue in New York City, almost everyone is Liberian. Many fled here, survivors of a brutal civil war that claimed the lives of one in fourteen Liberians. But even an ocean away, the baggage of the past is difficult to leave behind. Steinberg spent two years in this close-knit neighbourhood, tracing the tensions between two men, Rufus and Jacob, with very different pasts but goals which were locked into a collision course. As national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099524228
• ISBN13: 9780099524229
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"