Author: Mikael Awake

Mikael Awake is based in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in the online versions of the Village Voice, Boston Globe, and Atlantic Monthly.
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Life Among the (not-Quite) Native Ohioans Cion by Zakes Mda Picador, 2007, 320 pages, $14 In his first novel Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda introduced readers to Toloki, a poor man living in an unnamed South African city who decides to take up mourning professionally.  In exchange for coins, Toloki wanders from one funeral to…

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