Godwin /
Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the United Kingdom by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a richer man, Geoff is no...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Mark, a millennial technical writer who lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter, grew up a world apart from his much younger half-brother Geoff. Raised in the United Kingdom by the mother who deserted Mark when she divorced his dad and married a richer man, Geoff is now a fast-talking soccer agent, who pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to find an elusive prospect known only as "Godwin," an African teenager Geoff believes will be the next Pele. All they have to go on is a video of Godwin. They don't even know which country it was shot in. Narrated in turns by the intellectually rigorous yet self-thwarting Mark, and Lakesha Williams, the conscientious leader of the writers' collective where he works, the novel becomes a twisty international adventure that is part heart-of-darkness and part American Main Street in the 2010s, deliciously far-flung geographically, ethically and emotionally. Godwin immerses us in the hazy world of high-stakes soccer-recruiting and the beautiful game itself, weaving the search for Godwin together with the moving story of Mark's mixed-race family and Lakesha's surprising path into their lives. |
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| Physical Description: | 277 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593701324 0593701321 |