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Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his recent breakup with his girlfriend, his present, his past.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Teju Cole
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