Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
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A01=Julie Iromuanya
African expats
American dream
arranged marriage
Author_Julie Iromuanya
Category=FBA
debut novel
deception
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folly of ambition
green card
heritage
human nature
Ifi
immigrants
Job
legacy
lies
macroaggressions
micro
need for acceptance and approval
Nigerian couple
relationships
secrets
shame
small-town Nebraska
Product details
- ISBN 9781566893978
- Weight: 439g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2015
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ifi and Job, a Nigerian couple in an arranged marriage, begin their lives together in Nebraska with a single, outrageous lie: that Job is a doctor, not a college dropout. Unwittingly, Ifi becomes his co-conspirator--that is until his first wife, Cheryl, whom he married for a green card years ago, reenters the picture and upsets Job's tenuous balancing act. Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Passages North, the Cream City Review, and the Tampa Review, among other journals. She is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.
Julie Iromuanya has short stories and novel excerpts appearing or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review , Passages North, the Cream City Review , and the Tampa Review , among other journals. Her writing has been shortlisted for several awards, including the Glimmer Train Family Matters and Very Short Fiction prizes, and the Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. She has been awarded scholarships and fellowships for the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. She earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska--Lincoln and was the inaugural Herbert W. Martin Post-Graduate Fellow at the University of Dayton. A scholar and writer, Iromuanya teaches for the creative writing MFA at the University of Arizona. Mr. and Mrs. Doctor is her first novel.
