Thief-man thief Thief-man (Novel), Iowa City, IA
Thief-man thief Thief-man is a literary art-heist novel about a Ghanaian immigrant whose last-ditch effort to achieve the so-called American Dream involves the restitution of an Akan object.
“Stories about the American immigration experience are often tragic, but the human experience is more tragicomic than tragic; I hope that this tragicomic novel helps readers recognize immigrants’ full humanity.”
DK Nnuro is the Ghanaian-born author of What Napoleon Could Not Do (2023), one of Barack Obama’s 2023 Summer Reading List picks and the winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in Fiction. The book was also shortlisted for The New American Voices Award and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently curator of special projects at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Iowa English Department.
You can find DK on instagram: @dk_nnuro