Oprah's New Pick

Today Oprah Winfrey announced her new pick: Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan. The book is a collection of short stories originally published in the New Yorker. The book won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book 2009 and PEN/Beyond Margins Award 2009. Nigerian born Akpan studied philosophy and English at Creighton and Gonzaga universities. He studied theology at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 2003 and received a Masters in Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Michigan in 2006. He now is assigned at Christ the King Church, Ilasamaja-Lagos, Nigeria.