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The Virgin of Flames

by Chris Abani

Penguin

January 2007, 304 pages, $14.00

by Dan DeLuca

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

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In The Virgin of Flames, the Nigerian-born novelist -- who's also a poet with a new collection, Hands Washing Water -- sets another story of a protagonist coming to grips with his own identity in a multicultural milieu.

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