"Employing a fiction writer's sensibility and a journalist's curiosity, 'The Chibok Girls' provides poignant portraits of everyday Nigerians whose lives have been transformed by extremist forces"--Back cover.
Helon Habila grew up in Nigeria and is the author of three novels, Oil on Water, Measuring Time, and Waiting for an Angel. His fiction, poems, and short stories have won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Novel (Africa Section), the Virginia Library Foundation's Fiction Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. Oil on Water was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, the Orion Book Award, and the PEN/Open Book Award. He is an associate professor of creative writing at George Mason University.
