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| “Tremor,” Teju Cole’s new novel, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos. Cassandra Klos for The New York Times |
Teju Cole’s much-anticipated return to fiction
Teju Cole’s new book, “Tremor,” scheduled to be released tomorrow, is his first novel in more than a decade and one of the most anticipated books of the season. The story, set in 2019, follows a Nigerian professor of photography at a prestigious Boston college and his wife, and it mostly eschews plot. Instead, it considers the ebb and flow of family and friendships, and the microaggressions and minor conflicts of daily life.
As with Cole’s previous work, readers might notice similarities between his characters and his own life. He told us that autofiction was not an “unjust” way to frame his work, but he cautioned against taking it literally.
Jamaine Abidogun
JamaineAbidogun@MissouriState.edu
https://missouristate.academia.edu/JamaineAbidogun
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