STORIES
Zongo Street is a vibrant Muslim community in Kumasi, Ghana, whose population includes a religious zealot who terrifies neighbors, a taxi-driving ghost, and a woman who dwarfs her tea-seller husband and shakes down his creditor. Several of this beguiling collection's 10 stories are written as quirky fables; others read like richly detailed ethnographies. A few explore what it means to be, like the author, an African in the U.S. And one, "Faith," defies categorization, but a Palm Pilot-wielding Recording Angel figures prominently. All of it is powerful writing that broadens our notion of contemporary fiction.
