February 21, 2014, Friday - Rain Taxi Reading Series: Okey Ndibe at The Soap Factory

Time:  Reading at 7:00pm

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Author Okey Ndibe reads from his new book, Foreign Gods, Inc.

Rain Taxi is proud to present acclaimed Nigerian writer Okey Ndibe reading from his riveting new book, Foreign Gods, Inc. (Soho Press). Exploring questions of race, identity, and the commodification of the sacred, the novel tells the story of Nigerian-born New York City cab driver Ike, as complicated a character as any in contemporary literature. Frustrated with his job, divorced from his wife, and at odds with American culture, Ike plots an art heist in his home country, but learns that there is still farther to fall before he hits bottom. A taut, literary thriller, Foreign Gods, Inc. is a novel that wrestles with bad faith and the post-colonial condition in equal measure, and a more than worthy follow-up to Arrows of Rain, Ndibe’s first novel, which Ernest Emenyonu called “A blueprint for the second generation of African novelists.”

Free and open to the public—reception to follow!