"The Palm-Wine Drinkard & My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" by Amos Tutuola ***

• Summer Sub Club Read with Beth
• Nigerian author, born 1920 in Nigeria, Christian family, six years of education, became a copper smith, member of Yoruba tribe
• Originally published separately in 1953 & 1954, this combined edition originally published in 1994
• Review:  This combination of two novellas in one edition by Nigerian author, Amos Tutuola, was quite interesting. Written in the early 1950s, both stories read like mythology meets pen and paper.  Both stories are about cultural and personal transitions and conjure up the image of being shared orally around a campfire.  I cannot honestly say that I liked the stories so much as I found the biographical information about the author and his folktale style very interesting.  I preferred "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts", which read like the fever dream of a young boy lost in a world turned inside out by war.  I could hold on to a sense of the boy's struggle in that story more than I could grasp meaning in "The Palm-Wine" Drinkard".