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The Lies We Tell for America
A Memoir
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The Lies We Tell for America
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Ber Anena
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Ber Anena
Named A Most Anticipated Book for Fall by Publishers Weekly!
A brilliant, piercing, and funny exploration following one woman’s journey in navigating the fraught higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic as an international student.
"The Lies We Tell for America is beautifully particular and unexpectedly relentless in its haunting goodness. Geeez! Ber Anena manages to write New York, romance, and graduate school as inventive as I have seen all three of them written this decade." —Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy
This program is read by the author.
In 2019, Ugandan writer Ber Anena opened her email and was overjoyed to find that she’d been accepted into Columbia University’s prestigious MFA in Writing. Then, reality struck: It would cost approximately $150,000 in tuition and fees alone for the two-year degree.
Anena scrambles to secure funding, leaving the security of her stable income, apartment, and family in Uganda for great uncertainty in the United States. The idea of studying in New York quickly morphs into an ordeal. From maneuvering icy roommates to grappling with food insecurity and calling out racism in her writing workshops, Anena begins to rewrite the narrative of the American Dream she had once accepted.
Incandescent and uncompromising, funny and humane, The Lies We Tell for America charts the lengths students from “shithole” countries go to seek an education in the West. These pages lay bare Anena’s own cultural assumptions, while shining light on a particular kind of migrant experience. After everything—was coming to America worth it?
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“A stirring account of an international student that frankly shows her struggles and the indifference of universities.”—Library Journal
"With a voice utterly her own—full of desire, humor, vulnerability, and deep wisdom—Ber Anena tells the extraordinary story of her journey as a writer, from growing up in the midst of a civil war to struggling through the financial and emotional tribulations of the Ivy League. Every page of this singular Kunstlerroman glimmers with careful attention to the ways our biggest truths—the complexities of intimacy, isolation, dislocation, and desire—live inside the smallest moments of our days. Ber Anena is a daughter of Acoli and a storyteller for the ages. Her story will stay with me for good."
—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
"A sharply observant memoir, full of candor and warmth and humor, with an unforgettably vivid storyteller at the center. The details are astute, the social insights shrewd. I loved it."
—Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and To Tell
"The Lies We Tell for America is a strong debut by a keen and astute observer of different cultures and modes of being in a time when such insight is sorely needed."
—Morgan Jerkins, New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing
"The crazy things Africans will do to acquire an education in the West are surpassed only by the strip-naked mad things African writers will do to write. Anena knows both. This memoir is her triumphant vindication."
—Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, author of The First Woman
