Our Second Nominee for the CFB Summer Beach Read Festival is Ukem Akpan's Say You're One of Them 
I've been talking about Akpan for a while. Some of you know that I often in awe over the great writing coming from Nigeria. Every year I add a new author to our summer read-in. Akpan's short story collection was a no-brainer nominee in my book.
Synopis: 5 short stories set in war torn Africa. One of those stories, An Ex-Mas Feast was featured in The New Yorker eight years ago.
Uwem Akpan was born in a village in Nigeria and currently teaches in Zimbabwe. After studying philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities, he studied theology for three years at the Catholic University of East Africa. He was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. "My Parents' Bedroom," a story included in this, his first collection, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing.
Here is an excerpt from "Say You're One of Them"
