Short Takes

Fatin Abbas and Christine Smallwood

September 14, 2006 | This article appeared in the October 2, 2006 edition of The Nation.

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Reviews of Half of a Yellow Sun, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and The City Is a Rising Tide.

About the Author

Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.

Fatin Abbas

Fatin Abbas is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Harvard.

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