num_pages: 336
description: The day before Ajuzia leaves for America, his grandmother spins a skein of tales, weaving a colorful, bawdy, powerfully evocative tapestry of Nigerian life.Wonderfully specific in its sense of place and the all-too-human people who inhabit it, I Saw the Sky Catch Fire captures a world of myth, magic, and gods in a novel which is as broad as it is deep.
language: English
title: I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
titlecomplete: I Saw the Sky Catch Fire (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
genres: Fiction, Africa, Nigeria
ratings_count: 91
places: Nigeria
publisher: Plume