Seesaw (Ogene novel)

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Seesaw is the second novel by Timothy Ogene. It was published in London in November 2021 by Swift Press, [1] [2] and was reviewed in The Guardian , [3] The Times , [4] Unherd , [5] Isele Magazine, [6] and Writers Mosaic. [7] Excerpts appeared in Granta [8] and The Johannesburg Review of Books . [9] It can be considered as a classic road novel and, at the same time, a satire; the voice of an unreliable narrator depicts American culture and politics as seen through the eyes of a Nigerian scholar visiting Boston. [3]

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