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Nafkote Tamirat Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Nafkote Tamirat
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Nafkote Tamirat

Nafkote Tamirat Biography

Nafkote Tamirat is a native of Boston. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her short stories have appeared in Birkensnake, The Anemone Sidecar, and Best Paris Stories. The Parking Lot Attendant is her first novel.



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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is from Abba, in Anambra State, but grew up in the university town of Nsukka where she attended primary and secondary schools and briefly studied Medicine and ... (more)

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    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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