2,5/5 
 Sometimes I really don't get the buzz, promo and high ratings surrounding a book. I do my very best, but I just don't see it. So, debut novel of the year? Really? 
 If a novel is that fragmented, essayistic and autobiographical it needs to come across more fierce, engaging, poetic, insightful and original. 
 Nope, in somewhat the same genre/topic read Adichie, Coates, Teju Cole, Another Brooklyn, Behold the dreamers instead. Or just dust of the Baldwin on your bookshelf