TY - BOOK AU - Ndibe,Okey TI - Never look an American in the eye: a memoir : flying turtles, colonial ghosts, and the making of a Nigerian American SN - 9781616957605 AV - PR 9387.9 .N358 Z46 2016 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, NY PB - Soho KW - Ndibe, Okey, KW - Authors, Nigerian KW - 21st century KW - Biography KW - Novelists, American KW - Nigerian Americans KW - Journalists KW - United States KW - College teachers KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - bisacsh KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - Nigeria KW - Civilization KW - Anecdotes N1 - English Dreams, Communist Fantasies, and American Wrestling -- Never Look an American in the Eye -- My Commission and a Chilly American Reception -- Sleepless in New York -- Nigerian, Going Dutch -- Fitting the Description -- Are You Okay? -- A Norwegian "Okay" Interlude-- On a Croc's Back, America-Bound -- Will Edit for Food -- Lying to Be a Writer -- Writing, Reading, Food, Some Ass Kicking -- A Brand-New American -- An African Folktale, a Wall Street Lesson -- A Dying Father, Dreams of Burma and England -- Wole Soyinka Saves My Christmas -- Crashing a Party, Changing Hearts ER -