As an Ivorian who has lived in Paris, I really appreciated these big observations in little worlds, the beautiful rhetoric on Judeo-Christian education, the poignancy of laying out the geography of paris and it’s immigrant communities into roads, as consumers, and the authenticity of this language, with all its West African jargon and the place-markers that have shaped my life. An essential read, very real in ways you don’t see much of in the way of West African diasporas— the older and modern time frames were so essential to making this novel feel complete despite its terseness.