The Thing Around Your Neck Awards and a must-read for fans

and a must-read for fans of Nick Hornby's 'High Fidelity'

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consequences appear to follow a common set of scientific principles and share some similar effects in the brain--such as the "pleasure centers

The Thing Around Your Neck Awards and a must-read for fansFrom the Orange Prize winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. In 'A Private Experience', a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she's been pushing away. In 'Tomorrow Is Too Far', a woman unlocks the devastating