7Every Day Is For The Thief by Teju Cole
Teju Cole won the PEN/Hemingway prize for his first novel, Open City, and his second act is a triumphant return.
The book tells the story of a Nigerian doctor who lives in New York city returns home to Lagos and must reckon with how both he and his native land have changed.
Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole’s unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local.
A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world.
Over long, wandering days, the narrator compares present-day Lagos to the Lagos of his memory, and in doing so reveals changes that have taken place in himself.
