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| | GraceLand by Chris Abani |
 | | However, Elvis Presley’s GraceLand after which the novel is named, is both in name and context, a contradiction-in-terms to the slum of Maroko. |
 | | Like Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, GraceLand is the story of a young lad caught between the two contrasting cities, struggling to survive and make good, but running up against the decay, misery, urban blight and moral turpitude of a nation trapped in its own contradictions. |
 | | But all-in-all, GraceLand is also a painful book of total recall that unmasks the foibles of the society, presenting for all to see, its dark secrets and all that is bad and wrong, from homosexuality to depravity, incest, greed, and the unbridled power of those in government. |
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