When You’re No Longer at Home
Wandering in Memoir and Fiction: Tété-Michel Kpomassie’s ‘Michel the Giant’ and Chuang Hua’s ‘Crossings’
As a boy born and raised in Togo, Tété-Michel Kpomassie climbed a coconut tree and encountered a snake high above the ground. Terrified, he fell more than thirty feet. It’s a miracle he survived, but the priestess of the local snake cult suggested the boy had done something to offend the gods.
How to make amends? Though just a teenager, Kpomassie would h…
