The guava thief Darling moves to "Destroyedmichygen" from Paradise, Harare in We Need New THESE by NoViolet Bulawayo.
In a novel titled for these things, a man who calls the corpses he buries "Adam" refers to rich students as "Alexes" during the "paper revolution." These things title a novel in which several girls interrupt their alphabetical porn viewing to watch "disturbing images" of an old woman nodding by a stabbed girl. Guessing these things from a Reader's Digest article inspires a budding architect to abandon a private one of these that became his "good" one. The Midwestern social worker Helen has a fraught relationship with a faux-exchange student who takes one from the anti-Idi Amin revolutionary Isaac in a novel titled for them by (*) Dinaw Mengetsu. The guava thief Darling moves to "Destroyedmichygen" from Paradise, Harare in We Need New THESE by NoViolet Bulawayo. Nikhil hates the one he gets because his father Ashoke survives a train crash by dropping a page from "The Overcoat." For 10 points, what things are exemplified by "Gogol" in a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri?
In a novel titled for these things, a man who calls the corpses he buries "Adam" refers to rich students as "Alexes" during the "paper revolution.
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