Edible Bones

In Edible Bones, Nigerian-born award winning author, Unoma Azuah skillfully captures a dramatic and revealing picture of a complicated African immigrant s life in America. Kaito works as a security guard at the American Embassy in Lagos. He deals with hundreds of hopeful Nigerian visa applicants, daily. Barely a third of the crowds, who line up outside of the embassy before dawn each day, will actually be called to the service desk, and of those, most are told, Denied! Kaito, however, gets lucky; his application for a visitor s visa is approved. He departs for the US, eager to fulfill the American dream of his media-driven imagination, where every house is a castle and every American life replete with luxurious cars, designer clothes, and widescreen TVs. Edible Bones follows his journey as an undocumented African immigrant in an unwelcoming American urban square and chronicles the distance between his grand expectations and his ensuing formidable fate.