Scale Boy: An African Childhood

Author:	Nganang, Patrice
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9780374614515
Publisher:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Language:	English
Page Count:	444
Publication Date:	1/20/2026
Size:	9.25" l x 6.25" w x 1.38"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography	Cultural, Ethnic and Regional
Social Science	Cultural Studies

An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa—complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.

Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life.

Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one’s community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man’s coming-of-age.

“In this gorgeous memoir, Cameroonian novelist Nganang chronicles his coming of age in the 1970s and ’80s and his decision to pursue a literary life.” —Publishers Weekly