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Scale Boy: An African Childhood

Scale Boy: An African Childhood

Nganang, Patrice

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralAfrican History

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0374614512
ISBN13: 9780374614515
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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 and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.

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