Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Homeless Waters
    Homeless Waters
    Homeless Waters
    Ebook164 pages3 hours

    Homeless Waters

    By B. Nyamnjoh

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they didn t miss the father they hadn t known. Later on, in the alluvial valleys of Bonfuma and the lands beyond, Ngoma experiences the thrills and challenges of schooling and being schooled. Adolescents will appreciate his stories and struggles as he tries to reconcile his village roots with the desire for a modern education. He has special relationships with his grandfather, stepfather and teachers, and becomes captain of the college football team. But growing up with a sister does not make him understand the subtleties and complexities of girls. Whether Collette or Camille, they seem to be two sides of the same coin. Ngoma successfully manoeuvres between the two, without the slightest crisis, for a while. He seeks balance between God and girls, work and pleasure, learning and mischief. While life can be well salted, it can also be bitter. Jealousy rises and he discovers who matters and who doesn t. His life brings together the bearableness and unbearableness of belonging, of being in love and being free, of...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9789956579198
    Homeless Waters
    Author

    B. Nyamnjoh

    Lumkap B. Angwafo III is studying for a medical degree at the American University of Antigua College of Medicine, resides in Houston, Texas, USA.

    Read more from B. Nyamnjoh

    Related to Homeless Waters

    Related ebooks

    Coming of Age Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Inherited Imagination

      Aug 18, 2020

      The Inherited Imagination
      9 min read

    • Article

      It All Begins in Love

      Dec 1, 2023

      It All Begins in Love
      9 min read

    • Article

      No Apologies: On Writing About My Mother’s Life

      Mar 15, 2021

      I am halfway through a first draft. On bad days, I long for the comforts of fiction: the anonymity, the deniability. The post No Apologies: On Writing About My Mother’s Life appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Lockdown Stories

      Nov 13, 2020

      Lockdown Stories
      6 min read

    • Article

      Freedom in Telling the Truth: The Millions Interviews Adrienne Brodeur

      Nov 27, 2019

      I used to play the story for laughs. But when I started a family of my own and as my children grew, I realized I had to reexamine the way I was brought up. The post Freedom in Telling the Truth: The Millions Interviews Adrienne Brodeur appeared first

      8 min read

    • Article

      Women We Love

      May 6, 2024

      Women We Love
      18 min read

    • Article

      Cherished Volumes

      Jan 21, 2020

      The oar dipped methodically into the wateras my dad guided our canoe across the shimmering lake. Sunshine warmed my bare shoulders, and I listened in rapt attention while my mom read from the volume in her hands: “The birches in the hollow turned as

      4 min read

    • Article

      We Were All We Had

      Aug 6, 2020

      We Were All We Had
      11 min read

    • Article

      WINGS of DESIRE

      Sep 5, 2021

      Sandro Veronesi’s THE HUMMINGBIRD (W&N, $37.99) is a clever, comedic and highly entertaining Italian novel (translated by Elena Pala) from the very beginning. A visit from his wife’s therapist throws a spanner into the life of Dr Marco Carrera, a man

      4 min read

    • Article

      Women At War

      Feb 26, 2023

      Women At War
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘We Are Bridges’: Featured Nonfiction from Cassandra Lane

      Apr 20, 2021

      Lane's memoir, which won the 2020 Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, explores the author's ancestral history in order to give her future child a family history. The post ‘We Are Bridges’: Featured Nonfiction from Cassandra Lane appeared first on The

      8 min read

    • Article

      As the World Collapses

      Jul 27, 2017

      As the World Collapses
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Truth Accuracy Could Never Achieve: The Millions Interviews M. Randal O’Wain

      Nov 11, 2019

      This trauma told me stories of who I was in relation to home and the men who raised me. These memories were so horribly fucking bright I couldn’t turn away. The post A Truth Accuracy Could Never Achieve: The Millions Interviews M. Randal O’Wain appea

      6 min read

    • Article

      This Is Not a Defense of the Power of Art

      Jan 25, 2018

      If you’ve never cried while reading a book or watching a movie, this essay isn’t for you. There are only three times I remember out and out weeping in response to either: As a child on the roof of my mother’s house, in my wife’s and my first apartmen

      8 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Jan 23, 2023

      Books
      6 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Nov 18, 2019

      Books
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Homeless Waters

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Homeless Waters - B. Nyamnjoh

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1