Foreign Gods, Inc. Okey Ndibe
Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated

Apr 1, 2014 - Foreign Gods, Inc Though set in the mid-1990s, Ndibe's protagonist Ike's racially-aggravated travails in the US are as poignant as the lonely West Indians in the Selvon novel of London of the mid-1950s. Laurie Loewenstein's Unmentionables (“Exceptionally readable and highly recommended,” LJ); Mary Miller's The Last Days of California (a triple-threat Discover, Indie Next, and Okra pick); Okey Ndibe's Foreign Gods, Inc. The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson (February). May 7, 2014 - In our modern culture of secularism, spirituality is generally viewed as something to be mocked. The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt; Foreign Gods, Inc. Feb 18, 2014 - “Foreign Gods Inc. Songs Only You Know: A Memoir by Sean Hoen (April). Will be published on January 14, 2014. Tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery. Is a thrilling account of divinity in the age of global capital. The novel recounts Ike's ill-conceived plan to steal Ngene—the patron god of his village. Dec 29, 2013 - In “Foreign Gods, Inc.,” a Nigerian-born New Yorker hatches a scheme to return to his native village to steal an ancient statue of a war god and sell it to a Manhattan art gallery. Jan 14, 2014 - The Face of God by Taylor Jacob Pate (). Jan 10, 2014 - Soho Press, 2014. Nov 19, 2013 - In many other societies, what transpired in Anambra last Saturday would be regarded as a portrait of utter failure. Dec 29, 2013 - In "Foreign Gods, Inc.," a Nigerian-born New Yorker hatches a scheme to return to his native village to steal an ancient statue of a war god and sell it to a Manhattan art gallery. Jan 15, 2014 - And, as last week, there's another highly-anticipated Africa-set fiction novel, Foreign Gods, Inc.