Scale Boy: A Memoir

by Patrice Nganang

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa--complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374614512
• ISBN13: 9780374614515
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"