Scale Boy: An African Childhood

By: Nganang, Patrice

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa--complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country's history and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one's community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man's coming-of-age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250468566
• ISBN13: 9781250468567
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"