"I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too."

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About Chris Abani

Chris Abani is a Nigerian author and poet known for novels such as Graceland and Song for Night. He is also an academic who has taught creative writing in the United States.

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