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Author Tea: Patrice Nganang, Princeton Public Library

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Sunday June 7, 2026
3:00 PM

The author discusses his memoir "Scale Boy: An African Childhood" with Colby Cedar Smith. Book signing to follow. Tea and cookies will be served starting at 2:45 p.m.

About the Book (from the publisher): An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa—complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy. Patrice Nganang writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life. "Scale Boy" is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one’s community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man’s coming-of-age.

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