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When it became dark, i would pick up a book and read by the light of an old desk lamp i had rescued from one of the dumpsters at the university. Open city by teju cole overdrive rakuten overdrive. She holds an mfa in fiction from columbia university. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, teju cole s open city seethes with intelligence. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading every day is for the thief.