Walking on Cowrie Shells
Stories

What an incredibly vibrant and imaginative collection! Walking on Cowrie Shells is a document of the Cameroonian-American experience in ten irresistibly spirited stories, a passport to another culture and, sometimes, other worlds. Nana Nkweti writes with the imagination of a Sayaka Murata or Irenose......more

Love me a collection of short stories, and one with a great title... however this one fell a little flat for me. While I love how diverse the stories are, I only loved the one where the woman was trying to get pregnant. Honestly, Ill read what she writes next.......more

This is a stunning, wide-ranging collection, and I was blown away by its scope. For me, the first story ("It Takes a Village Some Say") remained the most memorable with its multiple narrators (the latter of which emphatically corrects and replaces the former). I also appreciated the use of sporadic......more

Each story was vastly different in this debut short story collection so it’s not surprising that some resonated and others didn’t. I especially liked the story about selkies (a type of mermaid) and the story about a Cameroonian American woman unburdening herself from a controlling Afrocentric akata......more

These stories were fiyah. -This is what we will tell you. The only truth you'll ever know. And you'll accept it because you once set out cookies for Santa, you trust deeply in the power of your voice and your vote, and expect that when you die, when you are nothing but bone and bliss, there lies a ne......more