Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, to Nigerian immigrants, he grew up in New Britain and Newington and often visited cousins in New Haven. He holds four degrees, including an MFA in screenwriting, a law degree and a master’s in global economic law. The meld of cinematic science fiction, social justice polemic and historical and geographic grounding in Goliath reflects Onyebuchi’s multidimensional biography. Yet Goliath is as targeted as it is sprawling, serving as a provocative lens through which to view the social topography of American cities, including the city Onyebuchi calls home. Indeed: In the post-apocalyptic world of Onyebuchi’s debut adult fiction, intersecting crises of climate cataclysm, race war, mechanization, space colonization and gentrification (among others) super-charge the irradiated air, leaving the characters, and quite possibly the reader, gasping for breath. “Y’all are gonna be put through the wringer,” New Haven author Tochi Onyebuchi warns readers of his new novel, Goliath.
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