![]() ![]() (one of the many places in the world where she has lived)-in the present and in the imagined future. Arimah sets her fiction in Nigeria (where she spent part of her childhood) and in the U.S. In What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, her new book, dark turns come in many forms, from the fantastic to the grimly realistic. ![]() I do think that human nature has sort of proven time and time again that we will indulge our baser impulses.” And so I think we’re just sort of imagining the futures that are coming,” Arimah said, calling herself “a pessimist. ![]() “At some point, we all know deep down that we’re doomed. Why, he asked, did she think post-apocalyptic worlds hold so much interest for today’s readers? The answer she gave suggests her own fascination has as much to do with temperament as with our particular times. In a recent interview on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Scott Simon spoke to Lesley Nneka Arimah days before the publication of her highly anticipated debut story collection. ![]()
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